GameStop Pitches Android Tablets to Gamers - perezfaber1942

Eastern Samoa gamers are slowly abandoning their portable consoles in favour of of smartphones and tablets, it might come with as zero surprise that GameStop, the top U.S. games retail merchant, is now turn to Android tablets to boost sales. The retailer announced a variety of tablets running happening Google's mobile OS are on sale at more 1,600 of its U.S. stores, from manufacturers much as Acer, Asus and Toshiba.

There aren't equally some games and apps for Android tablets compared to the iPad, so GameStop will pre-load a bunch of free games with each tablet sold, including Sonic CD, Riptide, a absolve issue of GameStop's gaming mag, Game Informer, and the Kongregate Arcade gaming app that GameStop acquired.

GameStop's Android tablets bid starts from $230 for a 7-edge Acer Iconia 8GB tablet, clear up to $400 for a Samsung Galaxy Lozenge 10.1 16GB and to $500 for an Asus Transformer First 32GB. The Toshiba Sex 10 should be available future for $450 and GameStop as wel stocks pre-closely-held iPads, starting at $300.

If you're shortish on cash simply have a pile of old games you're non playing anymore, you can buy i of these tablets from GameStop with trades of games, consoles and even an old iPod, iPhone or iPad, operating theater utilisation the trade-ins as acknowledgment toward the purchase.

Last year, GameStop president Tony Bartel aforesaid in an interview the company is considering making its own tablet if it terminate't find an Android tablet that is great for gambling. Later in 2011 the company began trialing selling a noncomprehensive number of Android tablets at just about 200 stores, leading up to the latest energy of several models crossways most of its stores.

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