I Tried The Nex Playground With My Under-5s And They've Never Slept So Well

The motion-based games console drops in the UK next month. Here's what parents can expect from it.

Parents editor at HuffPost UK

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I’m probably not your typical games console reviewer being a mum of two under-fives who barely has time to go to the loo (and if I do, it’s usually in the company of a smol person).

That said, I grew up learning the ropes on a Nintendo 64 (Golden Eye 4eva), and later, an Xbox.

My partner’s now got a Playstation 5, but our kids – who are two and four – are a bit young to fully grasp how the controls work (there’s a lot of aggressive button-bashing without the desired outcome), so it’s not really something we can play on together.

That’s why I was especially excited to learn of Nex Playground’s launch in the UK and Ireland. I’d heard about the motion-based games console a while back, when it was only available in North America.

After reading a whole host of positive reviews on Reddit, I was curious about how it would fare for families with younger kids. Little did I know its next stop on the road to world domination would be good old Blighty (it’s currently available to pre-order ahead of an estimated late-June release).

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