Next Playground
A kids movement-based game system sold as hardware plus subscription.
What was said about Next Playground
Next Playground paired a couple-hundred-dollar device with a subscription and took off. Next Playground is a kids movement-based game system sold as hardware plus a subscription. It costs a couple hundred dollars up front plus the recurring fee, and it exploded in the past year.
It comes up in the Sub Club episode on Skylight's price increase to $79 as another example of a hardware subscription breakout. The episode gives no figures on its subscription price, revenue or growth.
How Skylight Doubled Subscription Prices to $79 – Michael Segal & Mark Ungerer
Costs a couple hundred dollars plus a subscription and exploded in the past year, an example of a hardware subscription breakout.
Next Playground paired a couple-hundred-dollar device with a subscription and took off. Next Playground is a kids movement-based game system sold as hardware plus a subscription. It costs a couple hundred dollars up front plus the recurring fee, and it exploded in the past year.
It comes up in the Sub Club episode on Skylight's price increase to $79 as another example of a hardware subscription breakout. The episode gives no figures on its subscription price, revenue or growth.
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