GameStop has expanded its partnership with PSA to create a new digital trading card platform.
The “Power Packs” beta program launches Tuesday, with a general launch planned at a later date.
Power Packs will allow collectors to purchase digital packs that contain a PSA-graded trading card. Each card will be opened digitally with the physical twin stored in the PSA Vault.
Once opened, cards can be shipped to the customer from the PSA Vault, instantly sold back to GameStop or held in the PSA Vault with the ability to sell through PSA’s partnership with eBay at a later date. Sell-back values will be determined by data tool Card Ladder’s dynamic pricing.
A whole new way to collect. Beta invites go live tomorrow.@gamestop × @PSAcard pic.twitter.com/RoDpmUIAfg
— Push Start Arcade (@PushStartArcade) July 28, 2025
Initial Power Packs will include Pokémon and football offerings with additional categories planned. Release tiers will be available at $25, $50, $100, $500 and $1,000 with transparent checklists.
Previous iterations of GameStop’s physical Power Packs have featured one PSA-graded Pokémon card and three random booster packs.
The Power Packs program is the latest collaboration between GameStop and PSA in the collectibles industry. The two brands first partnered in May 2024 when the video game retailer announced it would begin buying and selling PSA-graded cards.
The relationship expanded in October 2024 with a collaboration allowing customers to submit cards for grading through select GameStop locations. PSA reported in early May it had graded more than 1 million cards through the program.
Soon after, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen attributed some of the retailer’s financial turnaround to its push into collectibles and trading cards. GameStop reported in March that collectibles had generated $271 million in net sales in Q4 of its 2024 fiscal year. Those financial filings showed collectibles had accounted for 21% of GameStop’s $1.283 billion in sales for Q4 and 19% of the company’s total sales in 2024 — an increase from 14% in 2023.
To outsiders, the relationship has appeared so strong that hobbyists speculated last month GameStop could be positioning itself to acquire PSA parent company Collectors following news the video game retailer planned to raise debt through a private offering of $1.75 billion in convertible senior notes.
Multiple senior PSA officials pushed back against those rumors when reached by cllct.
Power Packs closely follow PSA’s entrance into a controversial but popular repack and mystery pack industry currently dominated by similar products produced by Arena Club and Courtyard.
Launched last week in collaboration with a repack produced by Sports Card Investor founder Geoff Wilson and his Atlanta-area card shop CardsHQ, PSA’s new certified repack program will act as a third-party auditor for participating repacks. The program will also help acquire cards and even ship to customers if needed.
According to PSA, the certification program aims to provide transparency to an industry that has desperately needed it.
Pre-orders for the initial wave of PSA’s first certified repacks sold out within 12 hours.
Known as the card industry’s premier third-party grading service, PSA has aggressively improved its technology and broadened its reach in the market since being acquired by an investment group led by Nat Turner, the now CEO of Collectors, in 2021.
PSA’s role in the secondary market has continuously increased since acquiring eBay’s vaulting business in April 2024. Integrations between PSA and eBay, the leading online seller of trading cards, have resulted in a PSA-branded storefront on the marketplace and even PSA data being reported directly into auction listings.
In 2025, hobbyists can list cards stored in their PSA Vault directly for sale on eBay or have eligible cards purchased on the marketplace sent to PSA for grading.
Ben Burrows is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectible culture. He was previously the Collectibles Editor at Sports Illustrated. You can follow him on X and Instagram @benmburrows.