{"id":129420,"date":"2022-11-03T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-140397"},"modified":"2022-11-03T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:30:00","slug":"streaming-giant-netflix-acquires-cozy-grove-dev-its-sixth-in-house-games-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/03\/streaming-giant-netflix-acquires-cozy-grove-dev-its-sixth-in-house-games-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming Giant Netflix Acquires Cozy Grove Dev, Its &#8220;Sixth In-House Games Studio&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d721d82808f2c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d721d82808f2c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Cozy Grove\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d721d82808f2c\/cozy-grove.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d721d82808f2c\/cozy-grove.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Cozy Grove\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Spry Fox<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spry Fox, the Seattle developer behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cozy_grove\">Cozy Grove<\/a> games, has revealed it&#8217;s joined Netflix to become the streaming giant&#8217;s sixth &#8220;in-house games studio&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cozy Grove was an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing<\/a>-inspired title released on the Nintendo Switch in April last year, and will be followed by a second game, possibly &#8220;by the end of 2023&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For Spry Fox, this new partnership means it can &#8220;continue making the games&#8221; it already was, but with &#8220;more support and resources&#8221; to make them better and release them to more people around the globe.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are a studio that builds original, world-class cozy games. Especially games that bring people together. And we are confident that Netflix is going to help us do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It also takes the pressure off having to &#8220;generate profit&#8221; and will supposedly allow the team to make its games as enjoyable and fulfilling to players as possible. The developer says it will be able to tap &#8220;creative people&#8221; within Netflix, too.<\/p>\n<p>Spry Fox has reassured fans all of its existing games would remain &#8220;downloadable and available in their current forms on their current platforms&#8221;. As for its future games like <strong>Cozy Grove 2<\/strong> &#8211; there is &#8220;no change&#8221; in the company&#8217;s development efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix already has games studios like Next Games, Night School Studio and Boss Fight Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:112921 @ 2022-11-03T04:45:51+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><!-- End Widget --><\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts about Netflix&#8217;s latest gaming acquisition? <em>Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Spry Fox Spry Fox, the Seattle developer behind the Cozy Grove games, has revealed it&#8217;s joined Netflix to become the streaming giant&#8217;s sixth &#8220;in-house games studio&#8221;. Cozy Grove was an Animal Crossing-inspired title released on the Nintendo Switch in April last year, and will be followed by a second game, possibly &#8220;by the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}