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116 The sold-out Nex Playground made my kids laugh and cry

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 12/20/2025 06:00 EDT

The sold-out Nex Playground made my kids laugh and cry

If you told me last year the Nex Playground would outsell Microsoft's Xbox, even for two weeks, I would have laughed my way out of the room. It's a three-inch cube of a game console that's likely less powerful than your phone, one which uses a single camera to track your body. It only plays […]

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