Re:When will Google shut down Stadia?
by lonelappde on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:38PM
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If that MS approach works, why hasn't Netflix or Gog or someone already done it for any games?
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Netflix has been trying to introduce interactive content to their platform for years. The latest attempt is Minecraft: Story Mode [0]. Netflix's architecture is designed around streaming static video files, on platforms without great latency guarantees. There can be gaps of up to a second when loading the next video file. Interactive UI and choicepoints are quite limited.
Streaming live and streaming offline media require very different infrastructure.
There was also that choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirror thing.
They don't have the game dev experience or the library. Seems obvious. They can stream the games for the same reason Netflix can't buy a single DVD and stream that movie to everyone on the planet.