Netflix Will Launch Game On TV, Use Smart Phones As Controller Tool

Netflix continues to develop the game business (doc.netflix)

JAKARTA - Netflix continues to develop its gaming business lately, now the company is reportedly going to launch the service to a TV device with a smartphone as its controller.

App developer Steve Moser, who shared his findings with Bloomberg, discovered several rows of hidden code while digging the back of Netflix.

One line of code reads, "The game on your TV requires a controller to play. Do you want to use this phone as a game controller?".

The code shows the user's smartphone will function as a controller for the game hosted on the Netflix interface.

Moser's findings indicate that it is likely that Netflix is actively testing those features. However, not too surprising as streaming giants continue to increase their stakes when they come to the Netflix Games.

Netflix began to enter the world of games in July 2021, when the company officially announced its intention to enter the world of games.

Four months later, Netflix acquired Night School Studio, an indie game developer with several well-known Afterparty 2019 and Oxenfree 2016, featuring plots very similar to Netflix's flagship show Stranger Things.

That same year, Netflix also released games such as Into the Dead 2: Unleashed, Stranger Things 3: The Game, and Card Blast on iOS devices, and since then have released more than two dozen mobile games, as quoted by Gizmodo, Friday, March 31.

Last October, Netflix acquired Spry Fox as the purchase of its sixth in-house video game studio in less than a year. And last Sunday alone, Netflix revealed 40 more titles will be available at this year's Netflix Games, with more than 55 titles currently available.

Users can only get it by finding Netflix games in the Android or iOS mobile app store. You can also go through one line on the on-demand video app. However, according to the latest data, only one percent of customers play games on Netflix.