Netflix likes to open new horizons and raise the challenges, provided that it allows you to keep your spectators. Whether when trying the adventure of the mobile game, by multiplying the ephemeral physical events around their licenses or investing the big screen, the video transmission giant has more than one trick in their bag and an idea in mind so as not to let their flocks turn to the competition, the video game or any other form of distraction that would leave them too much of the service.
Therefore, you must know how to renew and tickle the curiosity of this audience too volatile to stay and “consume” homemade content. Netflix first tested mobile games, offering a very large and very qualitative, original, independent titles catalog, but also games that have known their time of glory in consoles and PC. But you needed to play on your smartphone or tablet. For more “traditional” spectators sitting on your sofa, or even in front of your computer, these “games offered as part of Netflix games” were an unusable gift.
This situation is about to be granted on equal terms. Netflix is currently testing a beta version, an accessible video game offer from the screen of its television or computer screen (PC and Mac). And it is the smartphone that becomes the controller. Tech & Co could try it to see if the cloud game according to Netflix had a brilliant future.
A catalog still thin, but beautiful promises
As in the Netflix mobile application, a “games” tab appears in the new left menu. A first selection of “beta” brings together playable games on television (or computer, the operation remains the same). At the moment, we have the nine, some supplied by Atari, others of homemade studies. Next, the announced games are a list of hundreds of games offered on smartphones and tablets. It’s about having them in mind.
Once the game is chosen, you will have to scan a QR code with your smartphone. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you will have to download the application of the Netflix controller. Once installed, it will be turned immediately on your screen on the same Wi -Fi network. Subsequently, it will be enough to scan the QR code to start it automatically with each start. If you are on Android, simply use the Netflix application.
The smartphone screen becomes the control panel in landscape mode. This will be summarized in a directional pavement (buttons on the cross of the pad to move), sometimes replaced by a joystick, and two to four Xyab buttons for shares according to the selected game. Therefore, these are tactile controls that are in order. You have to find your brands with the D-Pad to move the characters, shooting ships or objects depending on the game.
It is extremely receptive, especially for the various shooting games. We have not experienced a latency concern, quite the opposite, it is quite excellent. Obviously a stable connection (10 mbit/s min.) To avoid frozen (None informs during our multiple parts), but Netflix seems to have applied to its game offers the same concern for the calculated stability as its transmission service. If your flow is low, everything adapts to maintain the stability of the game.
Keep your consumers’ attention
Among the nine games, we find Twin linkA reflection game in which you have to advance the twins on a chess board to land at the same time in specific paintings, knowing that a chosen action makes the two characters move in the same way, even if they are not next. Cosy Grove: Camprit It is a simulation game in which you should help use bears to find peace, while solving mysteries and makes friends.
Part of the titles plays the letter of a small arcade as Caverns to MarsRemake of the original Atari title. You control a spacecraft on the road to Mars that must make its way over your enemies. Atari is also providing games for a new version of Ciempiés recharged,Arquanoic Where you need to eliminate pixels creatures that cross your screen.
Quite similar, but more modern concept, to Gema Topo chaos Who could remember a pinball game in which you have to pick up precious stones? Fashion and multiple game on mobile devices, Fairate fusion It is also proposed to demonstrate the management and low latency of the concept. OxfreeThe winning narrative game of the award, comes to offer variety with its decisive supernatural adventure for high school students who discover a spectral defect. Rocket (Arcade) and Story Warriors: Fairy Tales (Interactive narrative game in a enchanted world) Complete the offer of evidence.
The operation is quite simple, the quick configuration and it only takes a few seconds to start your game on the TV and transform your phone into a controller. This adds a rope to the general offer and we should see that the catalog grows in the launch. Because Netflix games offer excellent titles, rewarded worldwide (Terra Nile, GTA: San Andreas, Spiritfarer, Hades, Civilization VI, Monument Valley…), taken from your series (Calamar games, Stranger Things, La Casa de Papel …) or unpublished (Assassin’s Creed, Oxenfree 2 …), which are not available in this way and is a shame.
But everything, aimed at a more occasional players audience, will allow many of them to discover them on a screen larger than their mobile phone. Only for game comfort, the proposal can seduce those who do not want to invest in a living room console. But we are still far from the solid offer of Xbox Cloud games on compatible televisions.
The list of devices compatible with Netflix games on television:
- Amazon Fire TV Transmission Key
- Chromecast with Google TV
- SMART TV LG
- Roku and TV devices
- TV Smart Samsung
- TV NVIDIA SHIELD
- XFINITY 4K devices
- Xumo and TV devices
On the computer:
- Windows PC or Mac with a touch panel or mouse and a keyboard (smart phone compatible with iOS and Android)
- Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge Browser
Source: BFM TV
