Netflix to shut down two more game studios
www.gamefile.news
Oxenfree Night School and Moonloot closing, as streaming giant continues to shrink internal game studio operation

Prior to its Netflix tenure, Night School had developed the award-winning supernatural thriller Oxenfree.

  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.caEnglish
    48·
    3 days ago

    any studio that get acquired these days, instantly dies in my eyes because it’s never acquired by someone who cares

    • dudeface@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      3 days ago

      Or perhaps they promise the purchasing company something they cannot deliver on time and companies like Netflix are less understanding to bloating budgets

      • silver@das-eck.hausEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        It wouldn’t surprise me. Place like Netflix decides to invest in gaming without having expertise… Then when they see the inevitable delays that are so common with game releases, they panic

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    154·
    3 days ago

    Just six weeks ago, Night School had released Unhinged, a novel 30-minute first-person horror game, streamable on TVs to Netflix users.

    Prior to its Netflix tenure, Night School had developed the award-winning supernatural thriller Oxenfree.

    Netflix attributed the studio closures to a prioritization around kids gaming, party games, story-driven fare and games with mainstream hooks, such as a recently released FIFA game.

    Ah yes from their history I can see how it would be impossible for them to pivot from story based ges to party, fits, and uh, story based games.

    • RamRabbit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I think the real reason is nobody plays Netflix games. Vast majority of people don’t even know they exist; and those who do often don’t have a device that can run them.

  • cheeseburger@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    The goal of the guys who owned the studios was to make a bag selling to a larger company. They knew what that meant when they did it. Netflix is corpo, doing what it does naturally. Blame the cunts who sold.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    The 6 hour GTA 6 deal was expensive. They have to make cuts somewhere else. 1 trailer in exchange for 2 studio closures… Man these closures in general, if they at least could go independent or sold rather than closing. This industry is so eff-upped.

  • Carighan Maconar@piefed.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    I wish their games were more readily playable. :<

    I got three Android TVs, including a TCL 75" I just bought last year. I can’t play Netflix Games on any of them. The only device I can do that on is an old Google dongle. Wild.

  • sealhaslupus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    creatives who are successful want more money to fund bigger projects and increase the scope of their art.

    capitalists want studios to make money to line their pockets at the expense of creativity and eventually kill them when the games become just another vector to funnel cash to the wrong places.