Netflix dropping gaming rentals

Posted Jan 28, 2012 at 11:30AM EST by Harrison E

Listed in: News Tags: GameFly, mail order games, Netflix, qwikster, streaming

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Netflix seems like one of the best ideas ever and while there is nothing really as good here in Australia, except QuickFlix, which isn't as good we can continue to dream. Now there's also GameFly, which we have no equivalent of either, but it seems that combining GameFly and Netflix was the best thing ever...but looks like it's not meant to be as CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings revealed earlier this week.

In a small investor conference call Hastings said that fourth quarter financials were not as expected and the company no longer intends to compete with the guys at GameFly but will be focusing on streaming 3D Content. In late September of 2011 Netflix said they were going to spin off the company to the terribly named Qwikster which would handle the DVD by mail section and the company's movement into games.

After a few weeks of Twitter campaigns and everyone calling them idiots, Netflix abandoned the idea and left the future of the company in the air for a while. The investor call back in October said Hastings was undecided but it looks like they've come to their conclusion this week and sticking to streaming and sending DVD's and Blu-Ray's by mail.

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I'm not 100% on did Netflix ever have a gaming rental or are they considering? Anyways, GameFly isn't that great either. With high prices with slow shipping. It takes 3 days to get to the nearest proccessing faucility and 3-4 days to receive which means you just wasted 1 out of the 4 weeks in a month not including the time it'll take you to play the game. Especially if you're on a busy schedule and don't have the time to drop it off at your local USPS mailbox. I know that USPS has alleged "FastScan" with GameFly but I've asked x3 different post office if they have any equipment that "scans" it to GameFly and they had no clue so I wouldn't rely on that speeding up the process. If NetFlix does well in movies, games would be a big hit IMO.

# hmmm — Zer000000000000 2012-01-30 02:42

Online access codes might end up killing game rentals..im not paying 15$ more for a game that I do not own!

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