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On launching Football Manager 2024 PC, Touch, or Console, you now have the option to play as Football Manager Original mode, Real World mode, or Your World mode. Original is if you want to play Football Manager 2024 like traditional entries. Real World is a new option if you want to get an up-to-date experience for players and clubs. This mode will have players start as they were at the start date of this Career with them moving to the new clubs like in real life on the same dates. Your World will have players, clubs, and more accurate to the start of the 23-24 season, but no real-life transfers happening after that date. This gives you more freedom than ever before for each career save.
Football Manager 2024 is a paid game on PC, but also available on Game Pass. Football Manager 2024 Console is available as a paid game on PS5 and Xbox, but also included in Xbox Game Pass. Football Manager 2024 Touch is a paid game on Switch, but available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS through Apple Arcade. Football Manager 2024 Mobile is exclusively available through Netflix Games on iOS and Android. There is no standalone paid version of it.
While I dipped my toes into Football Manager 2024 Console last year through Xbox Game Pass, I was more interested in the PS5 version this year to see if the game had any PS5-specific features. Having now played all versions of Football Manager 2024, Football Manager 2024 Console feels like an upgrade over Football Manager 2024 Touch, but not at par with Football Manager 2024 (PC) yet in its complexity and features. There is some silver lining though. Having tested Football Manager 2024 Console on my TV and my monitor on PS5, the interface is very good for a controller.
Visually, it looks great and the load times are super fast. In fact, Football Manager 2024 Console on PS5 seems to load faster than all other versions of the game I have access to including the PC version on an SSD. It unfortunately does not have any DualSense features, but does have PS5 Activity Card support. You can press into the left stick to bring up a virtual cursor option which is good to have for some menus. Speaking of controls, SEGA really needs to partner with Sony and Microsoft to officially sell the controllers they use for promotion here.
This is the version I was most excited to check out. When it arrived as an update to Football Manager 2023 Touch, I started playing a new save and also loaded an old save to see if that works. I focused on playing this version with touch controls on my iPhone 15 Pro and iPad Pro, but also tried it with my Razer Kishi V2 on iPhone 14 Plus. Football Manager 2024 Touch on Apple Arcade played on my iPad Pro is my favorite version of Football Manager 2024 for sure. I cover the Nintendo Switch version of Football Manager 2024 Touch later on in this feature.
Football Manager 2024 Touch on Apple Arcade supports touch controls and controllers. I used my Razer Kishi V2 on an iPhone 14 Plus to test out the controller interface and stuck to touch controls on my iPad Pro. I also tried touch controls on my iPhone 15 Pro. The team has done a great job here with the interface and load times. On the visual and performance side, Football Manager 2024 Touch runs and looks great on modern devices with fast loading.
Football Manager Touch on Switch has been my goto version of the game because I enjoyed dipping in and out of it as a break from other longer JRPGs or games I was covering. Football Manager 2024 Touch on Nintendo Switch retains everything the Apple Arcade version has, but it sees cutbacks to visuals, performance, and has much longer load times.
Football Manager 2024 Mobile is the most curious of the bunch this year, because it takes a paid game that has microtransactions, and brings it to Netflix Games on iOS and Android. In fact, this new Netflix version of Football Manager 2024 even includes the in-game editor, something available as paid DLC in prior versions, and something not included in Football Manager 2024 Touch. As with other games only available on mobile through Netflix, I try and think of whether this one is worth subscribing to Netflix for. Football Manager 2024 Mobile is literally not available without Netflix. Football Manager 2024 Touch is on Switch as well.
Design
As an avid Netflix user, I've used the service on the Xbox, PlayStation, Netflix's Web site, Android phones and tablets, and the iPad. On all of those devices, Netflix looks roughly the same, with one main screen that shows rows of movies and TV shows with only the videos' artwork. To find a video to watch, you swipe left and right through those rows.
Coming from that horizontal setup, the Netflix for Windows Phone design slowed me down. Instead of those rows, movie and TV show titles are shown in a list with the video's name, the year it aired, its Netflix star rating, and its movie or television content rating (such as PG-13 or TV-14). All that information on the screen makes the Netflix app look cluttered, and because you have to scroll up and down to look for videos, the app is tedious to navigate.
You can use the app entirely in landscape mode, which makes it feel less cramped and easier to use, though I'd still rather the app used the standard Netflix design and let me scroll horizontally through movie and TV titles.
My other issue with the app's layout is that if you scroll down too quickly, before the app has a chance to load each section, the app will jump back to last section it loaded instead of letting you continue scrolling.
Getting around
To use the app, you must sign in to an existing Netflix streaming account, which costs $8 monthly. You can't sign up for a new account in the app, something you can do in the iOS and Android Netflix apps.
Once you sign in, you'll see the home screen, which shows your most recently watched titles and the videos Netflix suggests based on your viewing history. All of the typical Netflix-suggested genres based on your viewing history are present, such as "because you watched Mad Men" and "movies featuring a strong female lead."
At the top of the home screen, you can quickly finish watching a video that you started in the app or elsewhere on Netflix by tapping the resume button next to the title of the video. TV shows will only show the episode name, which can get confusing if you don't know which show you watched last.
One last left-swipe shows your Instant Queue, a list of videos you want watch eventually. You can add any title to your instant queue from anywhere in the app by tapping the video's title and touching the Add to Instant button.
I found the Netflix app was slow in two instances. First, it's slow to start up when you first open it because it needs to establish a connection before it loads the list of videos. It's worth noting that if you don't have connection, the app won't load past the first red Netflix screen.
Playing video
If you tap the show or movie's art anywhere in the app, that video will immediately begin playing. If you tap the video's name instead, the app brings up a synopsis, the Netflix community's average rating or your personal rating, actor and direction information, and a button to add it to your instant queue.
When you play a video, you can tap the screen once to show the progress bar, Play/Pause button, and caption options. If you hold and slide your finger over the progress bar, you can jump back or ahead to different scenes. Just like in other versions of Netflix, the app shows still images of each frame to help find the right spot.
Video playback was pretty good, but even on CNET's Wi-Fi signal, the picture was choppy and pixelated before it fully buffered. Once the video had loaded completely, it looked clear and didn't freeze.
Final thoughts
Across its many mobile, media player, and console apps, Netflix looks nearly the same. But that unifying design goes out the window with the Netflix for Windows Phone app (no pun intended), which is cluttered and laborious to get around in.
However, once you get past the clunky navigation, the Netflix app lives up to its purpose of helping you find and stream videos, and manage your instant queue. Even if Netflix never refreshes its Windows Phone app to be easier to use, it's still worth downloading so that you can stream videos wherever you go.
I pulled this chapter together from dozens of sources that were at times somewhat contradictory. Facts on the ground change over time and depend who is telling the story and what audience they're addressing. I tried to create as coherent a narrative as I could. If there are any errors I'd be more than happy to fix them. Keep in mind this article is not a technical deep dive. It's a big picture type article. For example, I don't mention the word microservice even once :-)
Given our discussion in the What is Cloud Computing? chapter, you might expect Netflix to serve video using AWS. Press play in a Netflix application and video stored in S3 would be streamed from S3, over the internet, directly to your device.
Another relevant factoid is Netflix is subscription based. Members pay Netflix monthly and can cancel at any time. When you press play to chill on Netflix, it had better work. Unhappy members unsubscribe.
The client is the user interface on any device used to browse and play Netflix videos. It could be an app on your iPhone, a website on your desktop computer, or even an app on your Smart TV. Netflix controls each and every client for each and every device.
Everything that happens before you hit play happens in the backend, which runs in AWS. That includes things like preparing all new incoming video and handling requests from all apps, websites, TVs, and other devices.
In 2007 Netflix introduced their streaming video-on-demand service that allowed subscribers to stream television series and films via the Netflix website on personal computers, or the Netflix software on a variety of supported platforms, including smartphones and tablets, digital media players, video game consoles, and smart TVs.
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