Why? There are enough Ma&Pa shops that already fill this niche, on top of eBay and FB Marketplace and whatever else. They stopped doing this before becuase they were losing money, why on Earth do they think it will be profitable for them now?

Are they professionally cleaning, repairing, refurbishing, and testing all their inventory? Highly doubt it. Whats the difference between them an a Ma&Pa shop aside from I would imagine higher prices? Why are specualtive investors ruining retro gaming for future generations? (I mean, I know the answer is obviously money, but its depressing and frustrating to see investors actively killing something you love. Not the first time and definitely not the last time though.)

I’d get a Dreamcast if I saw one in there for no more than $30.

So, they’re trying to be more like game-x-change?

The problem with this kind of idiotic idea is an attempt to play up on a waning trend too late. Had this been a few years ago, they may have been able to make some money.

Fact of the matter is: if they aren’t liquidating their back inventory of old used games online, either their pricing is insane, or people would just rather emulate.

Either option is going to prove this is a bad move for a dying business.

I remember when they had this stuff in stores. Then one day they decided it wasn’t making them any money and dropped all but the latest and the previous gen. This stuff was the primary reason I went to GS. After they dropped retro, little stores started to pop up to fill the gap and do it a lot better. Leaning into the culture surrounding retro gaming and imports and soundtracks and such. Not sure I’d go back to GS at this point. They kinda blew their own hand.

Why now? Why not 20 years ago?

I mean, as a person who still has their PS2, cool, but as a person who’s shopped at a game stop before…

I can’t wait for people to find out that a good portion of the inventory is actually bootleg fakes. From my past experience they won’t open them up to check in front of a paying customer, the customer is charged with knowing how to spot fakes.

venture capitalist firm that bought gamestop seeks to bring customers back after they destroyed the company through nostalgia grabs

They also closed all credit agreements so can now acquire other companies and reconfigure without asking for approval from bankers, who have a strong interest in Gamestop failing.

Two stock offerings in early summer mean they have 4 billion in cash and can run on that

The also introduced their own lines of replacement controllers, keyboards, and mice this year.

If you’re curious about whether corporate bots, esp from banks and hedge funds, are invading this instance and lemmy in general, just watch how fast this post gets downvoted.

I kinda hope they make them look like old GameStops too

Oh, they’re gonna have cheap prices on retro games right? Right?!?

Ew. Pass.

I’ll stick with my local small business retro shop that doesn’t stink of wage slavery, misogyny, and poor corporate decisions, thanks.

Great, too bad my local GameStop closed two years ago or I might have enjoyed this.

Definitely too late for them to be trying to get into the retro games market where I live. We’ve already got a pretty decent retro games store that sells more than just retro game stuff. It’s a GameStop on steroids since they also sell new games, plushies, used DVDs, physical board/card games, manga, etcetera. It even has 2 locations!

Don’t know if it’s still the case, but I did hear around maybe mid to late 2010s they had even replaced GameStop on a military base. As for the store chain, I don’t know whether it’s a west coast thing, but Game World.

A couple years ago i was looking for a copy of Windwaker for quite a while, and some dude just happened to being a stack of games to sell.

He got 1$ for it.

I paid 15 for it, right in front of him.

I’ll be okay without this scalper bullshit

And I will not shop there just like I don’t shop at regular GameStop. I’ll stick to local shops that don’t suck.

And everything will have impossible to remove price decals directly on the covers that ruin whatever condition and collectibility there was.

Yeah companies found how expensive they can make retro gaming because there’s a high demand for real devices and real games. Not surprising.

So Funcoland? The chain they bought and then murdered that was doing very well before they fucked it up?

Call us when you revive thinkgeek and sell it to somone who will make something of it