Ever since Netflix took its first tentative steps into video video games again in 2021, the corporate has reported a comparatively modest response from subscribers, however new figures counsel its current partnership with Rockstar to carry GTA to the streaming service has paid dividends, with month-to-month cellular recreation downloads almost tripling to 28m in December 2023.
As reported by Mobilegamer.biz primarily based on knowledge from Appmagic (thanks VGC), Netflix’s month-to-month recreation downloads on iOS and Android climbed from roughly 10m final November to round 28m in December. That leap may be straight attributed to the arrival of Grand Theft Auto on Netflix, with Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice Metropolis, and San Andreas all becoming a member of the streaming service of their Definitive Version guises on 14th December final 12 months.
As per Appmagic’s figures, San Andreas was by far the most well-liked recreation amongst Netflix subscribers, and was downloaded 11.6m instances. That is in comparison with 4.1m downloads for Vice Metropolis and a pair of.4m for GTA 3. Mixed, that accounts for 18.1m downloads, which means an additional 10m downloads in December got here from non-GTA video games. That is roughly the identical variety of downloads Netflix generated in November, in accordance with Appmagic.
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It’s going to likely be thought of a win by Netflix, whose official figures confirmed solely round 1 % of its then 221m subscribers had been downloading video games as of August 2022. 28m downloads from its now roughly 274m-strong membership base suggests the streaming service may very well be seeing as a lot as 11 % of its customers participating with video games.
That is excellent news for Netflix, which has invested closely in video gaming following its preliminary dalliances in November 2021. Within the years since, its gaming catalogue has expanded to over 80 titles and it is made quite a few notable studio acquisitions, together with Triple City and Cozy Grove developer Spry Fox, The Strolling Lifeless cellular developer Subsequent Video games, and Oxenfree creator Night time College Studio – which launched Oxenfree 2 final 12 months. It is also established a brand new Los Angeles studio – lead by former Overwatch government producer Chacko Sonny – to create a brand-new triple-A, third-person RPG for PC.
And whereas most of its recreation choices should presently be downloaded to play, Netflix has been experimenting with a restricted recreation streaming beta in current instances – the purpose being to make its gaming catalogue playable on all appropriate gadgets, together with cellular, TVs, and computer systems. Solely Oxenfree and Molehew’s Mining Journey had been obtainable for preliminary testing, nonetheless.
