Gamestop CEO goes into more detail regarding the possibility of selling vintage games on Gamestop.com
This comes from Gamestop CEO Paul Raines…
“We’ve thought about this vintage thing as an online initiative, and that’s where we’re doing most of our work. Part of what we have to do is we have to go source a lot of this product, get customers to trade some of their old product with us, and go find some old consoles, but we also own a lot of old product.”
How much old product do they have?
“Well, we don’t have a lot of NESes or Dreamcasts. That’s some pretty old stuff. But we just took Game Boy Advance out of stores recently, about a year and a half ago. Original Xbox, I think we took out of stores in 2009, as I recall. We’re reducing the footprint of PlayStation 2. We’re thinking about everything. Nothing we’d really want to call out yet. Our dotcom team is right now grinding through a lot of opportunities to see what’s out there and see what we can get our hands on and what we can merchandise.”
“A lot of what we do today is we let the PowerUp community tell us what they want to see, so we’ll be doing some contests around that and you can tell your readers to look for that upcoming pretty soon through PowerUp Rewards,”
“When I talk to PowerUp members they tell me, boy, it would be cool if you could have someone make new versions of old gear and old consoles, kind of a retro version of stuff. That’s an interesting one too. We also have relationships with every major publisher in the world and console maker in the world, that we can talk to about what they have and what they can make.”
