GameStop pivots to retro stores
GameStop pivots to retro gaming at select locations
GameStop is pivoting to retro games at select locations. As the industry moves to digital media — and the retailer struggles to adapt to the shifting landscape (including a short-lived stab at NFTs) — the company is betting on the old school.
GameStop Turns Select Locations Into Retro Stores With Classic Console Sales
The old take on new GameStrop stores will focus on retro console classics such as the Sega Dreamcast, and Xbox 360.
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GameStop is an oddity in the industry, a business that gamers can look at with both nostalgia and revulsion. Most recently, the company shocked fans when they unceremoniously closed long running magazine Game Informer.
GameStop Retro Stores Are Opening
Details beyond this are currently quite scarce, but there is a store locator on the official GameStop website that will tell you how close the nearest GameStop Retro is to you. The radius of the store locator is 100 miles, so if there are none within 100 miles, nothing will pop up.
GameStop Retro locations have started opening
The GameStop website has been selling physical copies of retro games for almost a full decade, but now it looks like the brick-and-mortar locations are about to follow suit. Only games from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Sega consoles appear to be for sale, so apologies to anybody hoping to bolster their Atari Jaguar or Panasonic 3DO libraries.
GameStop is retro-fying some of its Houston locations
GameStop is leaning into nostalgia as it rebrands a number of its locations. The Texas-based retailer announced that it's transforming six local shops into "GameStop Retro" stores, specializing in vintage (or dated,
GameStop rebranding some stores as 'retro' locations, stocking classic video games
According to a post on X, GameStop Retro stores will sell older models of Game Boy, Sega, Nintendo and Playstation models, along with games for those devices.
GameStop turns select locations into retro stores selling classic consoles
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GameStop pivots to retro stores as it looks to cash in on gaming nostalgia
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