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Gamestick Global Release Date Announced
Thursday September 12th, in the year of our Lord 2013,
London; Jasper Smith, CEO of PlayJam, the company
behind the highly anticipated micro games console - GameStick,
today confirmed a Global on-sale release date for the device of
Tuesday 29th of October 2013.
Retailers GameStop, GAME, and Amazon will partner for the launch
with additional outlets in Canada, Europe and the Middle East
receiving stock prior to the end of year Christmas season.
The console, which broke onto the games scene in January of this
year following a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, has
moved from paper to production in just 9 months. Originally
slated for release earlier in June, the company has pushed back
launch twice to meet itīs own stringent QA targets and to ensure
itīs Kickstarter backers were the first to take delivery of the
product before it hits the shelves.
“While to myself and the team at PlayJam the journey seems
longer, we have in fact come a significant way in a very short
period of time with GameStick,” says Smith, PlayJam CEO, “The
challenge of bringing affordable gaming to the big screen has
always sat at the heart of everything we do and GameStick
represents a huge step forward in reaching that goal. Were
extremely proud of what we have achieved and look forward to
families getting their hands on devices in the run up to
Christmas.”
PlayJam has remained firm in its commitment to honour its
promise to their Kickstarter backers to fulfil their units ahead
of the retail launch. Those units will ship out at the end of
the month with retail following thereafter.