The kid-friendly console that outsold Xbox during Black Friday is $50 off

The Nex Playground is simply a motion-controlled, cube-shaped console for ages 5 and up that’s selling similar hotcakes. It came successful 3rd for location console income during Black Friday week, according to income information shared connected Bluesky from Mat Piscatella of Circana, falling down lone Nintendo’s Switch 2 and Sony’s PlayStation 5. That’s an awesome feat for Nex, and not a large look for Microsoft’s Xbox consoles, which saw 2 terms hikes this year.

If you missed your accidental to prime 1 up astatine its 20 percent disconnected merchantability price, you tin bash truthful present done December 14th. Best Buy and Walmart are selling it for $199.99.

Nex Playground

What if the imagination of Microsoft’s Kinect lived on? It does successful the Nex Playground, an all-in-one, motion-controlled console filled with kid-friendly games. Exhaust and entertain your small ones. You’re welcome.

Where to Buy:

• $249 $199 astatine Walmart
• $249 $199.99 astatine Best Buy

The Nex Playground includes the console itself, a distant for navigating its menus, a powerfulness proviso and HDMI cable, arsenic good arsenic a magnetic privateness screen that snaps onto the Playground’s camera lens. There are a ton of games that you tin download to the Playground — each of which are controlled by moving your assemblage — though the console comes with conscionable 5 to get you started (Fruit Ninja, Starri, Party Fowl, Go Keeper, and Whack-a-Mole Deluxe are each beauteous fun).

If you privation more, including a clump of licensed games involving Elmo, Bluey, Care Bears, How to Train Your Dragon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Peppa Pig, you’ll request a Play Pass to entree them. New games are added to the catalog each season, and are automatically downloaded to your Playground.