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Scott McCrae

A Nintendo Wii-like console that's giving the PS5 and Xbox Series X a run for their money wants to succeed where the Mario maker failed: "We are standing on a giant’s shoulder"

Nex Playground.

Nex Playground's CEO says the company has a plan to avoid the same fate as the Nintendo Wii, where many owners bought only a handful of games.

Even as someone whose job it is to know about the goings on in the games industry, the Nex Playground came out of nowhere for me. The first thing I had heard about it was last month; it was the second-best-selling console of the week ending in November 22, beating out the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S – only coming in behind the Nintendo Switch 2 in the US. This little cube (a game cube, if you will) grabbed the attention of many with this feat, given that you'd be hard-pressed to find many months when the top three aren't some form of Xbox, PlayStation, or Nintendo.

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