GameStop CEO details progress of vintage game sale initiative
GameStop CEO J. Paul Raines provided more detail on the company’s new vintage games initiative in an interview with Joystiq, speaking to us about why the company wants to pursue this avenue at all, and how existing GameStop property and sites can be appropriated for this purpose.
The plan to sell classic games online remains tentative, but is in progress with GameStop’s “dotcom team” – a team that Raines suggested would “kill me if I start giving you an ETA, because they won’t be able to surprise the world with their announcement.”
“We’ve thought about this vintage thing as an online initiative, and that’s where we’re doing most of our work,” Raines said. “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.”Continue reading GameStop CEO details progress of vintage game sale initiativeGameStop CEO details progress of vintage game sale initiative originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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