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 ConsoleSamsung teases ‘AI glasses’ as it warns of the RAM crisis getting even worse in 2027 Ben Schoon | Apr 30 2026 - 9:55 am PT | Apr 30 2026 - 9:55 am PT In its latest earnings call, Samsung has teased its upcoming AI glasses, but also painted a pretty bleak picture of the ongoing RAM crisis. …
Samsung is increasingly worried about first-ever mobile division loss in RAM crisis, report Ben Schoon | Apr 22 2026 - 7:10 am PT | Apr 22 2026 - 7:10 am PT As AI continues to eat up the market’s RAM output, smartphones are in crisis as costs continue to skyrocket. …
… "Providing low-cost general-purpose computing remains a non-negotiable priority for us at Raspberry Pi, so while we can’t avoid passing on a portion of these increased costs, we’re also doing engineering work to expand the range of memory-density options available to our customers: we want to make … …
… 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 … …
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… Memory costs will impact pricing, will impact availability," she said. …
… It's also reportedly causing a delay for the PlayStation 6 release at Sony , as the cost of manufacturing these next generation consoles and the necessary steep price point to cover costs could absolutely result in fiscal disaster. …
… 32 GB DDR5 RAM already costs $394 today, up from $91 past August. A 2 TB Samsung 990 Pro M.2 SSD is currently not available for $572, whereas the same SSD cost around $119 last year. …
… 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… …
… Behan said Cook's "warning of 'significantly higher' costs in the coming quarters" is evidence of "how real the AI-driven supply crunch has become for the entire industry". …
