{"id":332162,"date":"2025-12-08T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/332162\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:23:08","slug":"bigger-than-xbox-nex-playground-is-a-timely-reminder-of-the-power-of-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/332162\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger than Xbox. NEX Playground is a timely reminder of the power of consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there! And welcome to this week\u2019s edition of The Game Business Micro, our subscriber-only run through and analysis of the big stories from the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>You may have noticed\u2026 no video this week. I know, it\u2019s outrageous. It\u2019s because I\u2019m travelling around, including to LA for The Game Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, we still have a delightful text-only version for you to digest. And it\u2019s a big one, including the rise of a new console competitor, and Warner Bros Games getting acquired by Netflix. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s dive in!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!8Qrg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F439121f0-e8f5-427e-b1b3-3ce8bc6ef5b3_2242x956.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/439121f0-e8f5-427e-b1b3-3ce8bc6ef5b3_2242.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"621\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/439121f0-e8f5-427e-b1b3-3ce8bc6ef5b3_2242x956.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:621,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2041519,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.thegamebusiness.com\/i\/180775742?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F439121f0-e8f5-427e-b1b3-3ce8bc6ef5b3_2242x956.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief: Over Black Friday week in the US, the NEX Playground accounted for 14% of all console sales, ahead of the Xbox Series S and X. According to Circana, the family-focused camera-based video game system was behind Nintendo Switch 2 (24% of sales) and the PS5 (47% of sales). In the UK, PS5 accounted for 62% of sales, followed by Switch 2 (23%) and Xbox (10%), according to NielsenIQ. NEX Playground is unavailable in the UK currently.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello there! And welcome to this week\u2019s edition of The Game Business Micro, our subscriber-only run through and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-332162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}