Prime Video Is Quietly Building a Sci-Fi Edge 7 Times Bigger Than Netflix’s

For a genre that used to feel synonymous with Netflix, sci-fi has quietly found a new home, and numbers make that shift hard to ignore. In Q1 2026, sci-fi accounted for 18.0% of viewer preference on Prime Video, according to FlixPatrol; on Netflix, that figure sits at just 2.5%. That’s not a narrow lead at all, but more of a gap wide enough to suggest something more fundamental than taste is at play.