Nex Playground - The Active Play System for Kids & Families Where Indoor Physical Activity Meets Interactive Family Fun and is Great for Gaming Nights, Parties and Playdates

The Nex Playground has been a fantastic addition to our family time. It’s a compact device that connects to the TV and uses a built-in camera to track movements, turning our living room into an interactive play area. The setup was straightforward, and within minutes, we were playing games like Fruit Ninja and Whack-a-Mole. The best part is that it gets everyone moving no controllers needed.My kids, aged 4 and 7, are thoroughly engaged, and even the adults join in for some fun and light exercise. It’s especially great for indoor play during bad weather. The device comes with five starter games, and there’s an option to subscribe for more. Overall, it’s a worthwhile investment for active family entertainment.

Amazing !!! I was looking for something that would get my son and daughter moving. My son loves games but he spends all his time sitting in chair, doing absolutely nothing and his health/physical appearance has sadly been affected due to lack of mobility. I’ve spent thousands of dollar trying to motivate him to get outside, play with toys, etc and he seems to ONLY want to sit in his room playing PlayStation which is putting so much weight on him. I’ve been worried and thought I’d try this as it seems to get the body moving. Well, it’s a hit with both my kids and my son is definitely up and moving. He absolutely loves this game and what’s even more impressive is so do the adults ( who could also use a bit of exercise ) that live in my house. What a huge win for our family ! I love seeing everyone up, smiles on their faces and moving their bodies ! Can’t go wrong here, worth every penny and super easy to set up. Literally a cave man could set up this thing.Highly recommend !

We set up our Nex Playground for my son's birthday this weekend and aolutely love it. We're a family with kids from 7 to 15 years old, and we all had so much fun. I had been looking for a game system I could say yes too, after struggling over games that keep kids sitting and isolated, staring at a small screen. This game system is different! It's very easy to hook up and gets rid of the annoying separate controller. We always lose/break/fight over controllers, so having a system without one is amazing. There is one master control remote but apparently you can use a regular remote if it gets lost, which is a huge relief. Otherwise the controller for all games is you and your body! The game comes with a small selection of games, which is great to start, but with the subscription (an annual fee) you get a really good, varied assortment of games. Some people may not like that model, but as a Nintendo-playing family, I love it and think it's a great deal. For the price of one or two games on a Nintendo system, you get access to a library of ever-expanding games on the Nex. I like having jumped in slightly late as there are a lot of games to choose from. Our favorite games currently are Starri (dance rhythm game), fruit ninja, bowling, and an airplane flight game. When we turned it on, even the kids' grandma wanted to try playing! I love watching my kids play actively together and have fun moving their bodies in a game. Its great to see them playing cooperatively and talking to each other. Selecting options with body and hand motions feels active even while using a screen. I felt sore (in a good way!) after playing enthusiastically the previous day. The best endorsement came from my 15 year old, who said she had been skeptical when I first mentioned getting the system, but "it was a really good idea, Mom." I agree!The company itself also feels very fresh and enthused about its product, like the best kind of start-up. The insider community on Facebook is a terrific way to get insight into thr company's plans for the future and current activity. They are very transparent about what they're doing and developing, and appear to always be working on improving and tweaking existing games. This is another feature where they surpass the competition, as competitor's games are not as easily improved or expanded upon once published.This is a long review, but can be summed up easily- my family loves the Nex! It's the best purchase I've made for our family in a long time.

I was looking for a birthday gift for my 13 year old son. Somehow came across this device that I had not even heard of a few weeks ago. I read through the reviews and it sounded like something that was definitely worth a shot for a hard-to-shop for teenage boy with a limited attention span. After setting it up, but before giving it to him, I bought a playground subscription to unlock all of the games and then tested it out with my 3 other sons, ages 15, 18 & 19. It’s fun, engaging, easy to use and has a variety of games to choose from. Some of the games are definitely for little kids, you can hide those in settings if you want. But most of the games are perfect for any age. The arcade basketball is a hit around here, it’s cool to be able to compete side by side to shoot as many balls as you want in a timed period. It became very competitive complete with trash talking. I’ll take it any day over them scattered around the house on their computers. Bowling & connect 4 bounce are also really fun. There are still quite a few more games we are eager to try out, a rarity to get everyone involved in something fun. I’m extremely happy with this little cube.When the older 2 kids were young, we had an Xbox 360 Kinect. That was fun and still probably would be but it’s different in that this tiny cube has way better tracking & recognition abilities. It’s also much easier to set up, operate and get started. Personally I prefer the Nex’s game subscription that includes a variety of good (many licensed from Hasbro or wherever) games. Buying 1 new game for a PlayStation, Xbox, switch etc costs about the same as a 3 month subscription to this system and a year at $99 is about the same cost as a (new)game and a half. Sometimes those expensive new games are duds and it sucks. I never tried the subscription system to Xbox, maybe it was good, but I never saw anything listed that made it sound appealing enough to throw more money at it on top of the purchased games.The Nex adds new games monthly and shows the upcoming titles on the main menu.I highly recommend this for any age, I initially was worried it might be too young and kiddish for a 13 year old, but after actually playing with it there are multiple games for any age. I think the marketing could be a little better to reach out to a variety of age groups. Having it called a ‘playground’ with dopey background music during setup was a little off putting. But I’m very happy I took the risk. Everyone is enjoying it, including myself.