Warner Bros' game studios weren't really a factor in Netflix's acquisition, so you can add that to the list of concerns

All these massive, multi-billion dollar acquisitions are getting a spot scary, aren't they? The 1 connected everyone's minds astatine the infinitesimal is of people Netflix's projected takeover of movie workplace elephantine Warner Bros, offering up a chill $82.7 cardinal successful exchange. This, of course, has an indescribably monolithic imaginable to ruin mainstream cinema, but we won't get into that close this second, due to the fact that there's different concern: however overmuch the streamer does not look to attraction astir the games broadside of Warner Bros.

When asked astir Warner Bros' games limb successful a caller Netflix investors telephone (thanks, Pocket Gamer), and whether the Warner Bros "assets heighten oregon accelerate the occurrence successful the gaming side," co-CEO Gregory Peters said that it does, with a caveat. "While they decidedly person been doing immoderate large enactment successful the crippled space, we really didn't property immoderate worth to that from the get-go due to the fact that they're comparatively insignificant compared to the expansive strategy of things," Peters explained.

"Now we're ace excited due to the fact that immoderate of those properties that they've built, Hogwarts is simply a large illustration of that, person done rather well, and we deliberation that we tin incorporated that into what we're offering. They've got large studios and large folks moving there. So we deliberation that there's decidedly an accidental there. But conscionable to beryllium clear, we haven't built that into our woody model."

Warner Bros haven't precisely been doing large broadly speaking with games successful caller times. Earlier this twelvemonth they outright closed Monolith, developer of F.E.A.R. and Shadow of Mordor, cancelling the studio's Wonder Woman crippled successful the process. Plus determination were the flops that were Suicide Squad and MultiVersus.

Netflix haven't precisely smashed it connected the games broadside either, having precocious sold Spirit Crossing workplace Spry Fox backmost to its owners, and laying unit disconnected astatine Oxenfree developer Night School Studio earlier this year. And there's been nary evident breakout hits that aren't based connected antecedently existing series.

This leaves a batch of country for interest implicit however Netflix whitethorn grip each of these caller properties. Will it beryllium the games companies Warner Bros ain that get deed with the inevitable layoffs that travel from monolithic acquisitions? Will these developers beryllium forced into making Stranger Things and Squid Game adaptations, and immoderate amusement trends next, advertisement infinitum?

These questions won't beryllium answered for years yet, let's not hide however agelong Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard took, not to notation the anti-trust process it went through. Perhaps we should transverse our fingers for the idiosyncratic developers involved, travel what may.