Who needs Good Old Games? GameStop’s new business is rare physical games

Some older games are so popular that GameStop can’t keep them in stock even with its second-hand business. The retailer now has a plan to serve consumers those products.

One of the biggest game retailers in the world has an idea for a new game category that is a hybrid of its new and used offerings. GameStop will start selling discount-priced older games that it gets from publishers. It will approach game makers with data about the best-selling used games that it can’t keep on store shelves. The retailer will then either purchase the remaining stock of a particular title, or it will work with the publisher to reprint older games. GameStop notes that its profit margins on these titles is higher than new games and slightly less than used.