Topic: Gamestop to start selling iPad's

http://cnet.co/pSLRhy

Acordding to 9to5 Mac, the company [Gamestop] will begin selling iOS Devices by the end of 2011.

Your Thoughts?

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!! Seriously though, I hate apple and do not want their products in game stores!

As long as they don't take up a large portion of store space (as in more than would be dedicated to, say, PS3 or DS sections) and draw crowds of iDevice gamers who think dedicated game consoles are stupid, I'm fine with it.

Smart move. They'll attract a new crowd of people who just want ipads.

if they're expanding their stores to accommodate more stuff, by all means, but if they're just gonna try and cram them in there someplace... geez, where's it all gonna go? GameStops in my area are so chock-full of stuff already it's not even funny D:

My GameStop is fairly small. And on top of it all it's in a fairly good sized town and it's ranked in the top 200 in the nation. It would be absurd if it doesn't come here but really that's the problem. It will come here and either take over a good chunk of the store or take up counter space.

they should go back to being Babages, funkoland, or software ect. then
or at least a new name that doesnt have the GAME part in it

Maybe it will FINALLY convince me to buy an iPad.

(Or not)

Well, this makes me mad. I wanna slap the Exec that thoght of that.

I think gamestop has a few spare rubbish bags to put the rotten apple core's in, also they will probably put the Apple products in the center of the store and make a big glass display... this is apple we are talking about.

I wondering if Apple will let Gamestop abuse the "used" market as much as they abuse it with used games and game system.

i.e. Barely selling it at a discount just to steal new buyers and pocket all the money for themselves.

Imagine.
A mother comes in to buy an Ipad. New for 599 or used for 579. Bam, Gamestop just pockets a basically new system.
Apple is bigger then the game industry right now and I hope, PRAY that they do this and Apple destroys them.

I believe there was a Facebook survey posted by Gamestop sometime ago that asked if anyone would be interested in buying an iPad or Smartphone from Gamestop and, I believe, around 80% said "No".

Wait this could be good. People will walk in wanting an iPad but then they'll see real games on real consoles and end up buying one of those instead.Nice!!

I wondering if Apple will let Gamestop abuse the "used" market as much as they abuse it with used games and game system.

Heh. Not likely. Apple has more clout with retailers. They'll just pull the products from the shelves if GameStop starts pulling its usual stunts.

Small gamestops? It's not like they'd keep them on the shelves right? They're pretty expensive items...

Well, I certainly won't be buying one from there, I stopped going to Gamestop a long time ago. With that said, it's nice to see that it's more accepted as a gaming product now.

The last place I'd buy an iPad is GameStop.

Who cares? Evil company selling products of another evil company sounds normal to me.
I just ignore both, apple and GS.
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This is great news. Hopefully, it means I'll be able to trade my iPod Touch for the Sony PSVita.

how big is your town to only have 1 gamestop my town has 850000 and 11 or 12 gamestops