„Wir haben den Spielestudios von Warner eigentlich keinen Wert beigemessen“, sagt Netflix-Chef Co-CEO Gregory Peters über den Übernahmedeal: „Sie sind im Vergleich zum Gesamtbild relativ unbedeutend“
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/we-actually-didnt-attribute-any-value-to-warners-game-studios-netflix-boss-says-about-the-acquisition-deal-theyre-relatively-minor-compared-to-the-grand-scheme-of-things/
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Layoffs incoming
So you don’t need silly things like that Nemesis system, then?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! There’s goes the Batman games 💔💔💔💔💔
This means they would land on the balance sheet as $0 cost but Netflix could still extract value from them.
Sweet. Then I’ll take them off your hands for a buck.
Considering the performance of Warner game studios, including the success of Hogwarts Legacy and the underperformance of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and MultiVersus, that piece of WB it’s probably worth 5 billion (According to Gemini). It isn’t nothing, but it’s not the most valuable part of this acquisition. Netflix would for sure continue making Harry Potter games, or continue developing Hogwarts Legacy.
i’ll buy it for $100,000. hmu
it’s probably to keep the valuation lower prior to takeover.
If you do some napkin math, WB games was rumored to be up for sale at a cost of about $4B in 2020, which puts at about 5% of the current offer. It’s not a huge percentage, but with titles like Batman, Mortal Kombat and Lego it’s not 0.
Looking at it with a bit wider lens, Netflix is has always been focused on TV and movies. Their forays into gaming have been generally family boardgame types as opposed to more intensive console types.
My guess? They’d spin off the gaming division, but keep the licenses close so the next time a Batman movie comes out, so does a Batman video game.
my optimist ass thinks this just means they won’t fuck creatively with games in current development like Hogwarts Legacy 2
Someone needs to break in and steal the nemesis system while they’re not paying attention.
So what’s the point of putting RDR1 on mobile if you’re gonna pass up tons of IP like that. If they can put RDR on my phone they can put arkham asylum. Kinda dumb move unless they know their games sector is getting canned.
I’m sure it feels great to hear that from the guy that just bought the company you work for
Wasn’t it reported that Netflix was in the hunt for EA when they were up for sale recently too?
I mean, as a potential buyer, I’d also downplay the value of the company that I want to acquire. Would be dumb to do otherwise
>“Now we are super excited because some of those properties that they’ve built, Hogwarts is a great example of that, have been done quite well, and we think that we can incorporate that into what we’re offering. They’ve got great studios and great folks working there. So we think that there’s definitely an opportunity there.“
What does that even mean?
Insane take IMO.
Objectively, even if the games are good, it’s true.
As long as whom ever wins, unseal the nemesis system from shadow of Mordor/war for other games to use
I mean it’s a kind of funny comment, considering the games industry is astronomically bigger than the movie industry. A lot of people don’t realise but the games industry is like 9x that of the movie industry.
Obviously, the specific make-up of Warner and their projects and investment between games and movies will differ from the industry average, but even still, to write it off as „nothing“ is an utterly absurd conclusion to make and reeks of incompetence, especially considering some of the IPs Warner holds.
Wasn’t the Harry Potter game huge?
Not making a Harry Potter universe MMO feels like a huge miss. It fits so perfectly with the classical MMO structure. I know they aren’t the hot new thing anymore, but we could really use a new one. WoW classic is the only thing that scratches that itch.
I guess younger people just don’t want that genre of game anymore?
I’ll give Netflix tree fiddy for it.
it’s crazy when you think about the fact that gaming generates twice the revenue that the video (film, tv shows) industry does
Hey, Peters I have some H20 AI GPU’s to sell you! Any interest?
Well it’s a good thing they weren’t given a patent for something that has prevented further innovation in a seemingly abandoned idea… That would be really tragic if it was true.
They’ll just sell off the game studio, likely to a larger developer
We aren’t getting injustice 3 are we?
Ouch. There’s gonna some folks splitting apps for dinner real soon.
How cool would it be if they just spun off the nemesis engine and it changed gaming and became the most valuable part of the deal
Goddammit, they were supposed to release the 3rd Injustice game after the end of the last Mortal Kombat sage, but nooo they had to right back into rebooting Mortal Kombat immediately after and pushing Injustice back further.
Injustice was the only game they made that I actually liked. It’s also the only superhero themed fighting game I like.
I fucken cant stand these greedy fuckers.
WB never knew what to do with their game studio(s). Maybe they can be spun off or sold once a deal is done?
How a company fumbles IPs like LOTR, DC Universe, HP, and others with regards to the games that could have been. And also fail to capitalize on new games in the Matrix universe, Godzilla, King Kong, and others. Worse yet would be if or when Netflix guts those possibilities entirely smh.
They’re going to sell it to Microsoft aren’t they?
Imagine a game about a hungry and wild coyote vs a fast bird… original IP