{"id":939554,"date":"2026-07-16T20:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/939554\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:22:15","slug":"gamestop-ceo-says-physical-games-are-totally-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/939554\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop CEO Says Physical Games Are ‘Totally Irrelevant’"},"content":{"rendered":"

GameStop\u2019s chief executive officer Ryan Cohen<\/a> doesn\u2019t seem concerned about the news that PlayStation is ditching physical discs. He says the end of physical games is \u201ctotally irrelevant\u201d to GameStop\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with Bloomberg,<\/a> Cohen was asked about the demise of physical video game discs after Sony recently announced<\/a> that it was ending production of new physical PlayStation games starting in 2028. But according to the CEO, that won\u2019t matter to GameStop.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter at all,\u201d Cohen told Bloomberg. \u201cIt is totally, totally irrelevant.\u201d As pointed out by Bloomberg, while at one point GameStop\u2019s primary business was software sales, the company has shifted in recent years to selling collectibles, trading cards, toys, and other items like Funko Pops. Earlier this year, GameStop announced that game sales only accounted for 18 percent of its revenue. Meanwhile, trading cards and toys made up 41 percent of its business.<\/p>\n

According to Cohen, this shift is why he pursued his plan to purchase and acquire internet bidding site eBay for around $55 billion. eBay, unsurprisingly, said no to the unsolicited deal in May.<\/p>\n

When Cohen was asked about the huge levels of hype for Take-Two\u2019s upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6, set to launch in November as a digital-only product<\/a>, Cohen didn\u2019t answer the question and instead replied, \u201cI want to go back and talk about eBay.\u201d\u00a0 The move means that GameStop won\u2019t be able to sell used copies of GTA 6 after launch. And with reports that GTA 6 may never get a physical release beyond a code in a box, GameStop might never get to sell used copies of GTA 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But whatever, Cohen is all in on that eBay train, baby. According to Cohen, who recently gave one of the weirdest interviews in years to CNBC<\/a>, if GameStop and eBay joined forces, it could potentially create a \u201c$1 trillion business.\u201d That explains why Cohen isn\u2019t giving up on his plans to buy eBay, with him talking about the proposed deal again in June<\/a>. Good luck with that, dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GameStop\u2019s chief executive officer Ryan Cohen doesn\u2019t seem concerned about the news that PlayStation is ditching physical discs.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":939555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[48745,235393,331022,242988,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-939554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-funko-pop","tag-gamestop","tag-physical-games","tag-ryan-cohen","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116931523084614124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}