{"id":69527,"date":"2026-07-17T21:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=69527"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:53:06","slug":"netflix-says-part-of-its-games-business-is-up-600-but-its-still-early-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=69527","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Says Part Of Its Games Business Is Up 600%, But It\u2019s Still Early Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of Netflix&#8217;s latest earnings report, the streamer gave an update on its growing video game efforts, which include cloud-based TV games and mobile games. In short, the business is growing and showing positive signs, but it&#8217;s still early days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 2026 saw the release of Netflix&#8217;s two &#8220;most successful&#8221; launches ever for cloud games on TV with FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition and the horror game Unhinged, though Netflix did not share any specific datapoints about them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Netflix Playground app, designed for kids, saw 3x growth in daily players since it debuted in April this year. This new app has helped &#8220;engagement&#8221; for kids&#8217; mobile games from Netflix to surge 600% year-over-year, Netflix said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;While off a small base, these early signals give us increasing confidence that we are building a foundation with exciting future growth potential,&#8221; Netflix said.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;core&quot;: { &quot;image&quot;: { &quot;initialized&quot;: true } } }\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1822304\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/netflixgames.png?w=936\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1822304\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Netflix Games business is growing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During an\u00a0earnings call, Netflix co-CEO Gregory Peters said Netflix continues to be in the building stage for its video game efforts. \u201cWe\u2019ve been building some solid foundations, and now we\u2019re seeing exciting positive signals that help\u00a0inform and give us increased conviction in our future growth and the nature of that growth here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peters went on to say that another \u201cbig positive sign\u201d for Netflix Games has been its cloud-based TV games, which began to scale in earnest in October 2025. Since that time, \u201cmonthly active players for cloud games have increased 11x, and adoption is significantly ahead of that curve that we had for mobile games with\u00a0even higher retention value,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we\u2019re definitely excited about that and focused on scaling up cloud games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peters said the gaming market is massive, and Netflix is taking it slow as it defines a strategy and determines its investment levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re just getting started here. We&#8217;re scratching the surface in terms of what we think the total potential of the space offers for us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to see us continue to calibrate and refine our level of investment here, which is still very small relative to our overall content spend based on demonstrated performance based on what is working for our members and what&#8217;s delivering returns to our business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next big Netflix game, Netflix Minigolf, launches on July 28, bringing together franchises like Squid Game, Bridgerton, and Stranger Things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Netflix Games has endured a rocky road in recent years as it set out to establish a strategy. At one point, Netflix invested in AAA games, and hired big names, but those plans fell apart. Today, Netflix is more focused on social and party games that people can play quickly and easily. Netflix Games&#8217; narrative executive Sean Krankel told The Game Business that, in the next couple of years, he wants people to see Netflix as &#8220;natural&#8221; destination to play games, as opposed to it being perceived like it is today, as &#8220;experimental.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I would love, in a year or two, for people to be going: \u2018This is naturally the place that I would go to play a story\u2019. And that \u2018playing a story\u2019 doesn\u2019t sound weird,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The ambitious thing here is that we create a new way of interacting with story and character that doesn\u2019t feel like you have to be trepidatious or worried about trying it, or, \u2018Am I going to be good at this?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The same way that somebody\u2019ll go to Disneyland and jump on a ride or go into an escape room, and it just becomes a new form of entertainment. That\u2019s where I\u2019d love to see this go,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/netflix-says-part-of-its-games-business-is-up-600-but-its-still-early-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Netflix&#8217;s latest earnings report, the streamer gave an update on its growing video game efforts, which include cloud-based TV games and mobile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1107,578,1709,321,5916,1397],"class_list":["post-69527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-business","tag-days","tag-early","tag-games","tag-netflix","tag-part","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}