GameStop Says It's Moving Beyond Games, "Evolving" To Become A Technology Company

The reinvention is a very common attempt by a company going under. Usually it doesn't work and the company goes under anyway, as I'm pretty sure is the case here.

They show pure incompetence providing any sort of customer service for people buying video games…doesn’t get simpler than that and they still are awful. Yet they think they can expand into tech…good luck with that.

Goodbye Gamestop Hello Techstop

I don’t see how this is going to save the company…

Yay! I've been missing Radio Schack......... LOL

I'm imagining FYE circa 2005.

I was really struggling to get off to sleep last night so I went to Google “How to get off to sleep” and the top research result as I was typing said “how to get off gamestop.” As someone who knows very little about gamestop, I found it quite interesting and funny.

Gamestop USED to be a decent gaming stop back in the early 2000s. Nowadays they're just another company with an overpaid CEO and underpaid employees. Sure, running a huge corporation takes money, people and product but Gamestop has continually dropped the ball with trade in offers, actual games in stock a lot of times and almost ZERO support for the pc gaming market any longer unless you buy online or digital through them. Which, let's be honest here, I can't imagine their digital market makes a boatload of money. I may be wrong though. You never know. Still, EB was the BETTER store and it totally sucks that Gamestop erased what EB brought to the table in the form of better service, more product and an avid pc support section. RIP. I traded in 2 games in 20 years and the trade in value was never worth the problem again.

RIP, GameStop. I’m not sure your new strategy will be the winning strategy you’re hoping for.

Will it be called Stop from now on?

In the Seattle area there are so many mom and pop game shops around there is zero reason to go into a Gamestop.

Best Buy ain't doing too hot either, Gamestop.

Stores thrive here...not sure everyone's issue with them. I usually go to them before anybody else game wise. I sold both my old consoles and grabbed my second Series X console from them. The Xbox headset that launched a couple of months ago was in stock there while out everywhere else. Also, their warranty is awesome. I had an Xbox controller stick drift issue bought a brand new controller with $10 warranty, controller had bumper issue from being dropped...went back given a brand new one for nothing just paid $10 for warranty again...rinse and repeat.

I've never had and issue with them and customer service is always good. I guess it depends on where you're from.

My only issue is I don't buy physical copies now usually just digital.

Was sure nice of them to kill off every other game store before turning the gun on themselves...

Continuing to move in the wrong direction.

Please tell me they're going to rebranding themselves as just "Stop".

Going the Gamespot route I see.

Though I can't say I'm surprised, I haven't purchased a game from Gamestop in so very long. I think I got a bundle of cheap stuff on sale like 3 years ago and before that it was probably 5+ years because the local store has no games, the website has no games, it's incredible how poor their inventory is. I mean, it SAYS they have stuff but it always is "not available online" and then "not available for pickup at local store".

At one point this was only a problem if you wanted something older or more obscure but recently I got Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (my first CoD purchase since World at War) to play Outbreak with some mates and the local Gamestop didn't even that. The place must be dealing drugs on the side to stay afloat or something, God knows no one wants those awful Funko Pop things they build forts out of in their stores.

Gamestop is dying out and the company knows it as well, this is all spin and it will go no where. I am not saying this as a hater, I loved gamestop and the different versions of it past and present around the world, and while a lot of gamers are jaded toward GS now, let us remember the incredible influence on the gaming industry it had for the last 35yrs and to the hobby we love called gaming.

But for more then a decade now, every time GS tries to branch out into used computers/ laptops, used phones, niche items, online features, and it became the least bit successful.... GS would just sell off that division for immediate funds to shore up its stock or as kickbacks. This has cut off vast directions of what and where GS brand can exist. To be clear about this, SEARS and Blockbuster, and JC Penny have done the same thing as many other businesses in history have also. This is a controlled crash in the business world, as it were, just trying to milk as much profit out of the ship before it sinks.

Their management has purposely guided GS into history, which is sad, as one of my dreams was to own a franchise where I would work in the hospitals during the day, and finish my day closing the shop at night.

I actually haven't been into a GameStop recently.

Sounds like they want to become more of an.... Electronics Boutique?

Sounds like they want to go back to what they were when they were called "Babbage's".

So, they might be going the way of the digital route?

Perhaps an Amazon gamestop type set up?

Something like that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone; especially anyone who had visited a store recently.

I went into one a few days ago and was like "Um, where is the game section?" LOL.

No joke, at least half of everything there was memorabilia type stuff or kids toys. For goodness sake, they were selling "pop it" stuff.

EBgames/Gamestop will always have a special place in my heart but at this point in time I think we are all just waiting for the inevitable.

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