Last Year’s Best-Selling Console... Shouldn’t Have
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/01/26 at 01:23 PM CT
It seems that we may have jumped the gun in singing the praises of the Nintendo Switch 2’s glorious launch last year, as the latest and blandest from the Big-N only really sold “well” immediately after its launch, with Gamers quickly cooling on Nintendo’s milquetoast Launch Window games (and so, so many Ports/Remasters), leading to a massive drop-off during the 2025 Holiday season. Of course, neither Sony nor Microsoft did any better than Nintendo – and in fact, they actually did worse.
However, there’s one game console that kicked major booty while everyone else was failing... and it’s basically a toy that no serious Gamers or gaming hobbyist has probably heard of: The Nex Playground, a motion-controlled Casual game platform retailing for $250, with 5 pack-in games.
The real question, though, should be, “How in the world did the Nex Playground succeed when it did everything wrong?” Surely we have long enough memories to recall that a significant contributor …
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