GAME, the UK retailer best known for its website and physical stores where customers can buy (and could previously trade in) their video games, including hardware, has clarified that it will continue selling physical titles following a report that suggested otherwise, with sources claiming that the company would no longer offer boxed software throughout its brick-and-mortar locations. Calling the news “categorically not true,” GAME clarified that a “wide range” of boxed games will still be sold both in store, and online.
A spokesperson with GAME mentioned:
- “This reporting is categorically not true.”
- “GAME continues to support the physical gaming market, offering a wide-range of physical games, hardware, software, accessories and digital gift cards, in stores and online.”
The original story, which claimed GAME would end all in-store video game sales:
UPDATE: GAME has denied plans to stop selling physical games outside of pre-orders. https://t.co/I4r1IgGsfz
— Gfinity (@Gfinity) June 24, 2024
From a report:
In a further follow-up, a spokesperson for GAME parent company Frasers Group [says] there has been no change in store policy at all with regards to the sale of physical games and consoles.
GAME’s earlier statement had not addressed the potential for some kind of change to pre-order requirements – or some other move that might have prompted the original, erroneous report this morning. GAME [says] there’s no changes to pre-order requirements either.