Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar Games’ highly anticipated sequel to 2013’s Grand Theft Auto 5, has left gamers parched, with no official announcement about its release from the developers. However, if you’ve been waiting for the next GTA title, there might be some good news for you. It’s no GTA 6, but a new report claims that streaming giant Netflix is looking to add a Grand Theft Auto title to its games portfolio. There are no details on the game itself or its launch date, but a GTA release on the Netflix Games platform would likely be a mobile title.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Netflix plans to license the lucrative GTA franchise for a future release on its Netflix Games service. The report states that the streamer has held discussions with Rockstar parent Take-Two Interactive about plans to release a GTA title for its catalog through a licensing deal. No details are yet available about the deal or the type of game planned for release.
An active Netflix subscription gives you access to the Netflix Games service, a growing catalog of games available to play on mobile and tablets. The streamer also recently started testing its games on more devices. So a new GTA title on Netflix Games would likely be a mobile title. It’s worth noting that mobile versions of the main GTA titles already exist on both Android and iOS. Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas can be downloaded as part of the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy bundle from Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store. GTA: Chinatown Wars, a handheld title originally released for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, is also available on both mobile platforms.
The WSJ report claims that Netflix is redoubling its efforts to bring more games to its subscribers and is focusing on adding higher quality titles to its roster, which can be played on TVs and PCs via game streaming. The streamer will also reportedly add games based on its hit shows, with mobile games Squid Game and Wednesday set to release in the coming months. In July, the company added The Queen’s Gambit Chess, based on the popular The Queen’s Gambit series starring Anya Taylor-Joy, to the Netflix Games service on both Android and iOS.
Meanwhile, Netflix announced in August that select subscribers in the US and Canada would be able to stream some of its portfolio games to the cloud on their TVs. Tests for streaming games on PC and Mac have also begun, with two games – Oxenfree from Night School Studios and Molehew’s Mining Adventure – included in the testing period. Netflix subscribers can use their phone as a controller, with a dedicated Netflix Game Controller app available to download from the App Store.
Netflix added two games to its library in October, bringing Paladin Studios’ Nailed It! Baking Bash and Thunder Lotus Games’ Spiritfarer for the service. Success! is an arcade cooking game in the style of Overcooked, while Spiritfarer is an adventure platformer with shipbuilding at its core.
While there’s no release timeline for the GTA title coming to Netflix, a GTA 6 announcement may be even further away. Rockstar is hard at work on the next big GTA title, which we know will be set in Miami’s Vice City and will feature two playable protagonists, Lucia and Jason.
