Amazon’s Glow isn’t any extra. The tech big has discontinued the youngsters’s system, which included an 8-inch show and a projector that might show video games on a mat, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

You cannot purchase the Glow on Amazon’s web site anymore. According to Bloomberg, the system was on sale for $150 (down from $300) on Tuesday earlier than it grew to become listed as unavailable later that day.

The publication cited gradual gross sales as a motive for the product’s demise. It additionally famous the system’s deal with distant connectivity as pandemic-related restrictions eased. Amazon introduced Glow on September 28, 2021, earlier than launching invite-only availability, adopted by common availability in March.

“We… regularly consider the progress and potential of our merchandise to ship buyer worth, and we repeatedly make changes based mostly on these assessments,” Kristy Schmidt, an Amazon spokesperson, advised Bloomberg. “We shall be sharing updates and steerage with Glow clients quickly.”

The Glow allowed kids to video chat, draw, and play video games with relations remotely by way of the 8-inch show. It additionally projected onto a 19-inch mat that kids may work together with. One apparent draw back was the requirement of an Amazon Kids+ subscription for enjoying video games and accessing different content material, like books and artwork. The service is $5 per thirty days. Glow got here from Amazon’s Grand Challenge lab, which makes experimental merchandise.

Some reviewers praised Glow’s innovation, however some, like PCMag, additionally lamented Glow’s reliance on a subscription and cellphone or pill, contemplating the excessive worth. And some reviewers, together with CNET and The Verge, famous glitchy habits.

Amazon staff who had been centered on Glow are being moved elsewhere inside the firm, Bloomberg reported.

As the publication famous, different not too long ago reported strikes by Amazon seemingly geared toward maintaining prices low amid slowing retail gross sales embody closing warehouses and, based on a Bloomberg report yesterday, a hiring freeze on retail company jobs.

Amazon’s Glow system will meet different Amazon units despatched to product hell, together with the Amazon Smart Oven convection oven/air fryer/microwave introduced in 2019 and the FireOS-based Fire Phone, which Amazon killed off in 2015.