If addtional revenue is important, then why not also sell their games to Microsoft to be included in gamepass? Why only Netflix Gaming? You see, PSNow would die a premature death if Sony will do this.
Because MS is their main competitor and Netflix is an ally beyond games.
You have to understand that PSNow is $10/month. How much is Netflix in comparison? If Netflix start to become serious in including game streaming in its service, there a lot of games from different publishers they can shop from. Sony's games will be a drop in the bucket and PSNow would die in oblivion.
Netflix said they will start including games at no cost and that will start with mobile gaming-like games.
Netflix may be huge for movies and tv, but maybe their streaming tech is crap for console-like games and they may have a tiny catalog. As of now Netflix has the asset of a huge amount of subscribers, who are interested on movies and tv but may not be interested on gaming. So they may be just another Stadia or Luna fail, or they may be huge. It's still too soon to know about that.
And if they have a deal, we still don't know which kind of deal they have. Maybe they just will put there a handful of Sony games? Maybe they will give their users some months of PS Now? Maybe they will only raffle a Ghost of Tsushima copy between their subs? Maybe PS Now is going to be their gaming part? Maybe Sony bought them?
It's too soon, but obviously if Sony agreed to make a deal with them it's because it will benefit them. All their records in recent years of revenue generated, consoles sold, games sold, engagement, game subs and so on prove they aren't dumb.
I made a
thread about Netflix gaming a while back and I argued there that if Netflix is spending around $20 billion for creating content alone, then just spending 10% of that value ($2 billion) for the videogame aspect would bring Netflix a lot of games already. And it will stack year after year. Obviously, Netflix can't just make new videogames that will be a hit. It's hard to nurture game studios and Netflix can't simply barge in the business and be successful at that. But what they can do with that 10% budget, that $2 billion, is shop around for successful games to put on their service.
Yes, you need way more than to throw billions to be successful at games. Look at MS, Amazon Game Studios/Luna or Stadia. I'd bet they spend way more billions across many years -specially MS- and didn't recoup them.
That's why I think if Netflix eyes a streaming service of movies, shows, and videogames as a possible business model in the future, Sony should just create their own. They should not sell their gaming IPs to Netflix and watch as people get accustomed to streaming games using Netflix. Sony's gaming IPs are too valuable for their potential growth. They should play their cards right.
Sony won't sell their IPs to Netflix. In any case, Sony would license them to include in their service old games. But who knows which kind of deal they have. Maybe Sony bought them to put there their entire movies, tv shows and anime catalog and merge it with Crunchyroll, Funimation and PS Now. Who knows, let's wait and see.