New consoles will arrive "in the next few years", GameStop CEO says

GameStop CEO J. Paul Raines expects his company to be "dominant" in selling the upcoming wave of new consoles, thanks in large part to its trade-in incentives program. Er, not that he can say anything about there being new systems, that is.

"So we anticipate that we’ll see some new consoles in the next few years", Raines told A-list daily. Then he smoothly recovered: "We don’t like to talk about that because our partners get upset if we jump ahead, so we’ll let them disclose that. Consoles are good for us any way you slice it."

"NX sounds exciting. We’re looking forward to it. [Nintendo is] very innovative in everything that they do. I hope that they come out with something exciting and innovative". Then Raines followed up with the haymaker: "I think we’ll be dominant distributor of that platform."

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Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.