{"id":15142,"date":"2026-03-17T17:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/17\/end-of-an-era-for-decades-old-playstation-3-xbox-360-and-nintendo-wii-u-as-gamestop-officially-declares-them-retro-change-means-faulty-or-aesthetically-unfortunate-consoles-that-can-st\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:04:26","slug":"end-of-an-era-for-decades-old-playstation-3-xbox-360-and-nintendo-wii-u-as-gamestop-officially-declares-them-retro-change-means-faulty-or-aesthetically-unfortunate-consoles-that-can-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/17\/end-of-an-era-for-decades-old-playstation-3-xbox-360-and-nintendo-wii-u-as-gamestop-officially-declares-them-retro-change-means-faulty-or-aesthetically-unfortunate-consoles-that-can-st\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era for decades-old PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U as GameStop officially declares them retro \u2014 change means faulty or &#8216;aesthetically unfortunate&#8217; consoles that can still power on are now accepted for trade-in &#8211; Tom&#8217;s Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.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?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">End of an era for decades-old PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U as GameStop officially declares them retro \u2014 change means faulty or &#8216;aesthetically unfortunate&#8217; consoles that can still power on are now accepted for trade-in<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Tom&#8217;s Hardware<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of an era for decades-old PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U as GameStop officially declares them retro \u2014 change means faulty or&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/17\/end-of-an-era-for-decades-old-playstation-3-xbox-360-and-nintendo-wii-u-as-gamestop-officially-declares-them-retro-change-means-faulty-or-aesthetically-unfortunate-consoles-that-can-st\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}