GameStop pivots to retro gaming at select locations

GameStop is pivoting to retro video games at choose areas. Because the trade strikes to digital media — and the retailer struggles to adapt to the shifting panorama (together with a short-lived stab at NFTs) — the corporate is betting on the old-fashioned. The GameStop Retro areas will inventory bodily consoles, discs and cartridges from traditional Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and Sega platforms.

The retailer introduced the Retro GameStop areas in a publish on X (Twitter). The corporate additionally has a web site the place you possibly can seek for retro-friendly areas inside a 100-mile radius. (I discovered a grand whole of 1 in my metropolis.)

GameStop lists 18 traditional techniques supported by its Retro shops, stretching again to the 8-bit glory days of the Nintendo Leisure System. Right here’s the whole checklist (in keeping with the corporate’s temporary announcement), together with their US launch years:

• NES (1985)

• SNES (1991)

• Sport Boy (1989)

• Sega Genesis (1989)

• PlayStation (1995)

• Sega Saturn (1995)

• Nintendo 64 (1996)

• Sega Dreamcast (1999)

• PS2 (2000)

• Sport Boy Advance (2001)

• Nintendo GameCube (2001)

• Authentic Xbox (2001)

• Nintendo DS (2004)

• Xbox 360 (2005)

• Nintendo Wii (2006)

• PS3 (2006)

• Nintendo Wii U (2012)

• PS Vita (2012)

You’ll discover that the PSP isn’t among the many techniques listed. Engadget emailed GameStop to attempt to verify it’s omitted and study extra in regards to the initiative. We’ll replace this story if we hear again.