Apart from delivering quality content on its streaming service, Netflix has also branched out into the gaming industry. Recently, they announced plans of allowing users to use their iPhone as controllers to play Netflix Games.
Steve Moser, the Editor-in-Chief of The Tape Drive, wrote a tweet about Netflix allowing users to use their iPhones as a controller with a picture of a line of code in response to Bloomberg’s chief correspondent Mark Gurman, who first reported the news.
Netflix launched its own gaming division, Netflix Games, in 2021 and it currently has 55 games in its catalogue as of the time of writing. Some of those games are based on IPs they own such as Stranger Things, and other games are ports from PC or console games such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, and many more.
Though Moser's Tweet specifically mentioned iPhones, the hidden code screenshotted in the same Tweet only said "do you want to use this phone as a controller" without specifying Android or iPhone. This may mean that both sides of the smartphone war may be able to get the "controller" feature in the unspecified future.
