GameStop’s bold move to begin offering Android tablets alongside its traditional packed shelves of traditional console and handheld video games may be working out in its favor. The retailer has gone from a bunch of test stores to now selling Android devices in no fewer than 1,600 locations. Among the tablets that the #1 US games retailer sells are those from Acer, Asus, Samsung, and Toshiba.
To tailor the offerings to its gamer constituency, GameStop pre-loads each Android tablet it sells with the Sonic CD and Riptide downloadable games, as well as the Kongregate Arcade app. Kongregate is a cloud-based game service that GameStop acquires in its effort to expand its horizons beyond the traditional gaming model. GameStop has also begun selling iPads and iPod Touch devices throughout the country.
"Android tablets purchased at GameStop come loaded with valuable extras including a hand-picked selection of free games, like Sonic CD and Riptide, the Kongregate Arcade gaming app and a free issue of Game Informer Digital," GameStop points out. " As with all products sold by GameStop, these items can be purchased with trades of games, consoles and even an old iPod, iPhone or iPad."
With a million and one different Android tablets in the wild, GameStop can't possibly stock them all, though it does carry slates from Asus (Transformer, Transformer Prime, and Transformer Pad 300 Series), Acer (Iconia), Samsung (Galaxy), Toshiba (Excite), and ViewSonic (VPad7) with prices starting at $230 (Acer Iconia 7-inch).
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