Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, has said he wants his service to be hitting all the home console systems, Blu-ray players and Internet capable TVs that it can eventually.
Right now they’re ”Xbox deal is exclusive”, and they say Netflix is ”not focused on mobile yet” as consoles take higher priority. The movie service denied earlier it was looking beyond Xbox 360.
”Eventually we want to be on all the game consoles, all the Blu-ray players, all the internet TVs,” Hastings told Reuters. ”So we are working in parallel with all of those efforts. Currently our Xbox deal is exclusive and we haven’t characterized it more than that.”
”(With) movie watching, we are not focused on mobile yet, but (instead) on the TV, on Blu-ray and on the video game consoles. We will get to mobile eventually, including the iPhone.”
Microsoft have boasted that within 3 months of the Netflix service coming to Xbox Live in the US, over a million users activated the service and racked up 1.5 billion minutes of viewing.
Sony have previously said they prefer to let PlayStation Network users have the freedom to do with movies whatever they wish; they can keep a copy downloaded to the PS3 etc. Will they change their position if they know it could harm Microsoft’s own movie dealings?
Want to see Netflix on another console?Source: GamesIndustry.biz
