It’s becoming more and more evident Netflix is ​​very serious about becoming the Netflix of video games. Either because the concept has been repeated over and over for years, something we can be sure has been observed with considerable interest by the company, or because the competition in the streaming world is getting tougher and the industry dean needs to find a clear way to differentiate it, the fact is that since they announced their arrival in this market we have seen slow but steady progress.

Its aim to add 40 new games this 2023 is quite ambitious, and the same can be said for its plans to create its own triple A, a title that we only know so far that it aspires to deserve said categorization, as stated In some published job offers to create a team that will be responsible for its development, it points out that it will not have micropayments, insertion of ads or other methods of monetization. Of course, we hope that the game will be included in the Netflix subscription, just like all the games released so far.

According to him, these goals are ambitious, but pales in comparison to something we already told you about a few months ago: their interest in cloud gaming. And no, it’s not like Netflix is ​​considering taking over services like GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud. The plan, as we told you when we informed you about the number of games it aspires to release this year, to get its games on any device that can play content from the platform is not being fulfilled. If it is used to watch a movie or series, it must be used for playback.

this of course presents a number of challenges. The size of the infrastructure required to support such a service is of course more than considerable, and its management will not be simple, and the management of licenses will also have its own complications, which at least the company is already familiar with, because it is a problem that also occurs with series and films.

However, there are other simpler problems that require a solution and a very clear example of this can be found in game controls. This is not a problem if we access them from a smartphone or a PC, but what happens if we do it from, for example, Android TV or a television? The good news is that Netflix seems to have found a solution, and if it works, it seems like a very good idea to me.

As we can read in Bloomberg (behind the paywall), Netflix is ​​testing the use of smartphones as controllers for games. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this kind of technology, Google has already done something similar with Stadia and Phone Link, so it’s a technologically feasible option, although we’ll still have to see if it’s possible for it to work with all types of devices, and at this point I mean mainly TVs.