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TNB Tech Minute: Netflix Drops Plans to Develop a High-End Videogame

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says businesses should become AI-powered organizations. And Dye & Durham says it's considering a sale as part of its ongoing strategic review process. Zoe Thomas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.5

Here's your TnB Tech Minute for Tuesday, October 22nd. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.0

Netflix is pulling the plug on its plans to develop its own high-end video game, known as a AAA title,

0:46.4

less than a year into development.

0:48.7

Instead, Netflix will focus on producing casual games.

0:52.3

A spokesman confirmed that the company

0:54.4

ended the AAA title effort earlier this month. Netflix laid off a team of

0:59.3

about 30 people. The project was a multiplayer shooter game, a person familiar with the matter said.

1:05.2

Netflix has added AAA games from third parties to its platform and could still add others.

1:11.5

Netflix moved into video games in 2021. So far, it's launched more than 100

1:16.7

games, mostly casual ones designed for playing on mobile devices.

1:22.0

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told thousands of devices. Industrial Revolution by becoming artificial intelligence-powered organizations.

1:35.2

The chipmaker has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI Boom.

1:39.7

Wong was speaking at market research and consulting firm Gartner's IT Symposium event in Orlando.

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