Nex Playground Opens UK Pre-Orders at £269 Ahead of June 22 Launch
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Updated · Stuff · Jun 20
Nex Playground Opens UK Pre-Orders at £269 Ahead of June 22 Launch
3 articles · Updated · Stuff · Jun 20
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June 22 is the UK on-sale date for Nex Playground, with pre-orders now open for the motion-controlled device at £269.
The $250 cube-shaped system plugs directly into a TV and uses a camera to track 18 body points in real time, working without a separate console.
Five games come pre-installed on its 64GB storage—Go Keeper, Fruit Ninja, Whac-a-Mole, Party Fowl and Starri—while a £90 annual Play Pass unlocks more than 50 titles.
About six feet of lateral space is enough for most games, and a magnetic camera cover addresses privacy concerns that dogged earlier Kinect-style devices.
The product has already been sold in the US for several years and, according to the report, outsold Xbox during last year's Black Friday.