GameStop Has Its Own Tablet Coming, Runs On Android.

Tablets, tablets, tablets everywhere! Last week word broke on the Amazon Kindle tablet, and this week it seems that Gamestop wants itself some of that fuckin’ pie. I don’t blame them. When the going gets intangible, the uh, intangible gets…co-opted by Gamestop?

Yeah!

Techcrunch:

When Tony Bartel told GamaSutra that GameStop had plans to push into the tablet space, he said if they couldn’t find a tablet to match their needs, they’d build their own. Clearly, a tablet maker somewhere out there has what it takes, though GameStop hasn’t revealed which developer they’re working with.

“We definitely have selected one,” Bartel told  GamesIndustry.biz. “We’re in test phase right now. But we’re excited at the prospect of coming out with this tablet. I would call it a ‘GameStop-certified gaming platform.’ We looked at all the tablets and these are the ones that really worked for gaming and we’re going to give you a few benefits that you’re not going to get elsewhere.”

Bartel was mum about the details. All we really know so far is that the tablet will run Android, have pre-installed games, and that GameStop plans to stream console titles to the slate sometime in the future. Just recently reports came out that GameStop has  plans to sell the iPod, iPhone and iPad in their stores.

Things I won’t buy: a GameStop tablet. iPad or bust, baby! Steve Jobs-fucking hipster a-go-go right here!