Completely wild times. Crazy how WB has come to this (crazy that they’ve been fumbled this badly despite all the IP they own) and also crazy how Netflix has grown this much.
Lego Stranger Things and Kpop Demon Hunters incoming? 
I don’t know, not really sure what to think about this but it doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence about future Batman, Harry Potter, Lego games etc.
If they bring these games to the current consoles I’m okay with this.
But will they?
That’s my question too, assuming these studios don’t just get shut down. I honestly don’t know anything about how Netflix’s previous video game initiatives worked, like Oxenfree 2 etc. Did you play them from the Netflix mobile app or something? 
Maybe a dumb question but I just don’t know. 
Well I recently tried out Lego party on Netflix via the tv app and it wasn’t great by any means. The controller was my phone and there was plenty input lag too and visually…nah!
I really hope they don’t make any stupid decisions because you’d think they don’t want to miss out on plenty of money from console games sold.
Ugh 
I just hope whatever else they do, Netflix just lets us buy their games on traditional console too.
Assuming they do still make games. Who knows the way things are Netflix will be for sale in a few years; I think it will be pretty hard to grow any bigger from where they are.
Funny how the news make people feel the theaters days are over, only I’m getting load of notifications of re-release movies in theaters, including LOTR trilogy extended, Star Wars Ep. 4, etc. It’s like they felt the disturbance and want to break the news to lessen the blow.
Netflix has said they’d still release movies in theaters, and I don’t think they could afford not to. They’re spending 80 billion on a damaged WB that was struggling. Like at least with ABK Microsoft was buying a company that was still really financially healthy and had just hit a peak with executives/shareholders wanting out. With WB Netflix is buying super damaged goods that’s been tossed around like some used torn sweaty gym socks that no one really knows how to make succeed but everyone thinks is lucky enough they’d break their piggy banks to buy.
Going to be honest, my care for WB Games is at an all time low since they closed Monolith studios, but assuming they don’t cut or sell their game studios as a cost saving measure, I don’t think Netflix could afford to make good games (which would be expensive) and have them be exclusive to their weird Netflix games setup. People aren’t going to subscribe in droves, a subscription only model to play games is just bleeding money, and I don’t think WB Games really owns anything that could make gamers switch platforms. Like whose going to abandon their current platform of choice for Mortal Kombat? Maybe the next Arkham game.
I mean, Xbox is a good indicator. Xbox Game Pass isn’t the Netflix of games because it doesn’t offer nearly a many titles as Netflix does TV and Movies and more importantly it isn’t itself the full platform. Xbox is still success because gamers can still buy whatever they want. They’re entire success isn’t determined by a single subscription. And looking at that subsection, for day one games Ultimate is now $30 a month. And this is a gaming only subscription. On top of that Xbox still releases all their games on Xbox storefronts to be purchased standalone AND in years past they’ve only expanded to releasing their games on more platforms and storefronts (places where game pass isn’t even an option). If that’s what Xbox has to do to succeed and grow, I don’t see how Netflix could survive making all the stuff available on Netflix only.
I might be in the minority on this but I hope this acquisition gets blocked.
You’re not in the minority. In general people don’t like aquistions and I’m assuming an Xbox forum is only biased when it benefits Xbox (I know I am 
). A Netflix Aquistion of WB games might just do the opposite since Netflix is trying (poorly) to gain a stake in gaming and they seem to see Xbox and Game Pass as more direct competition than other platforms. Interesting chatter on both sides from people in the entertainment industry too. Some herald it as the end of cinema. And it’d certainly be a blow to competition with Netflix gobbling up HBO Max and everything in film WB owns and all the IP and so on. Well, I guess the majority probably doesn’t care or know it’s happening. And then there’s minorities on both sides 
. I feel like the minority against it is probably bigger, but who knows. The other options weren’t good either. I’m whatever lukewarm would be if it was cold and a little callous.
I would rather paramount aquire WB, if Netflix gets WB they could easily make there games exclusively for Netflix.
Paramount would be questionable for a lot of other reasons. There’s a lot of political ties with them now. But yeah, it’s all a bunch of bad options for various reasons that will have a big unforseen impact we can’t even judge right now. But that’s been WB for the longest. In part I’m surprised WB Games is still around. They’ve been threatening to sell them off since AT&T. And they have consistently under performed save like Hogwarts Legacy and such games and just recently they closed a bunch of studious and canceled projects.
Speaking of Netflix, we still don’t have Oxenfree 2 on Xbox, don’t we?
The chance of that is at least an existence or not as uncertain as ABK acquisition.
The alternative was being bought by Paramount/Saudi Arabia and becoming another MAGA mouthpiece.
Netflix was essentially the least shitty option in a shitty hand. The issues that the film/theater industry are experiencing have been in motion long before this acquisition and would come to a head eventually regardless.
This is also the fourth time WB has been sold/merged, etc.
I wonder if this means Netflix the app is about to get tons more content from the likes of HBO and such, or if they leave the app as it is. Because if it does, i can see a price increase coming…again.
Realistically, it won’t be until after September 2026. There are multiple steps still required to happen.
First up is WBD has to split itself into two pieces – piece one is everything Netflix is acquiring and other piece is everything Netflix is not. Both companies have to be able to sustain entirely on their own after being split. This was estimated to take until September 2026.