Netflix’s game slate is currently pretty poor, but they reportedly have an idea on how to bring in bigger, third-party projects alongside internally developed projects…

The Wall Street Journal has reported that one of the streaming service’s biggest players is looking to use a recipe seen and tested in Hollywood. The company would license third-party games to provide subscribers with an expanded list of games to play alongside its own. The site, citing unnamed sources, claims that Netflix subscribers could be in line for mobile games in the next few months.

These games will be based on the more notable IPs such as Squid Game and Wednesday, but Extraction, Black Mirror and the Sherlock Holmes series are also in the Netflix pipeline. But while the list of first-party, in-house developments is slowly swelling, the company is looking to bring bigger third-party games to its service, and in addition to Bloons TD 6 and Classic Solitaire, Netflix has already begun talks with Take-Two to bring Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto to subscribers. Let’s just say they have the money to do so, even if Take-Two will charge a lot of money for it (after all, this IP is the jewel in the publisher’s crown, and it’s no coincidence that Grand Theft Auto VI is already in the works, and maybe this game is Netflix’s target).

Netflix will start offering mobile games through its Android and iOS app at the end of 2021, and you can stream more big titles to your TV and PC. In August, the company also tested a cloud gaming service in limited beta (Night School Studio from Oxenfree, Mining Adventure from Molehew). An original multiplatform AAA game is also in development at its California studio, led by Chacko Sonny, former executive producer of Overwatch. Also working there are creative director Joseph Staten (the Halo veteran left 343 Industries in March) and art director Raf Grassetti (who held the same position at Sony’s Santa Monica studio).

So something is in the works. The price increase will pay for it.

Source: VGC