The Nex Playground features no physical controls. Instead, like with an Xbox Kinect, players interact with games and menus using their bodies. The console launched in 2023 and cost $200. Sales were slow at first, but during the holiday shopping season in 2024, the device went viral thanks to TikTok and online creators. This led to it selling out and a price increase in 2025 to $250. Last year, the Nex Playground outsold the PS5 and Xbox during a short period of time. Nex says it has sold around 1 million units of the device since launch. The ongoing RAM crisis has made it harder and harder for
RAM Crisis Forces Nex To Raise Price On Playground Kids Console… He also directly laid the blame for the price increase on the RAM crisis affecting tech products around the world. “Over the past six months, the cost of key components — especially memory DDR and storage eMMC — has risen significantly across the industry,” said Lee. “These increases are driven in … …
… But with skyrocketing component costs amid the AI hyperscaling race , even that price tag was apparently not going to be high enough. “At present, the total cost of the product has far exceeded our selling price, even approaching twice the price we originally set,” the hardware maker announced on i… …
… The bad news is that the factors leading to these delays— spiking RAM and storage costs as inventory gets eaten up by AI data centers —don’t seem like they’re going away anytime soon. Nvidia said in its recent earnings call that it essentially doesn’t expect things to get better anytime soon. …
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