The surprise hit Nex Playground is the latest console to get a price hike

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Kinect-like device will cost $299 starting in April. The Kinect-like device will cost $299 starting in April. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Everything about video games is getting more expensive, and soon that will include a budget-friendly console. The Nex Playground — a Kinect-like device aimed at families that made headlines by outselling the Xbox over the holidays last year — will cost $299 starting on April 1st, a $50 bump. In a statement on the Nex Playground site, co-founder and CEO David Lee cited a number of familiar reasons for the higher price point: Over the past six months, the cost of key components — especially memory (DDR) and storage (eMMC) — has risen significantly across the industry. These increases are driven in part by the rapid expansion of AI infrastructu