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Post by Smashchu on May 14, 2007 20:22:27 GMT -5
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Post by Nester the Lark on May 14, 2007 22:30:03 GMT -5
Well, I just read the article about this at IGN. I haven't been a subscriber to NP for years (not counting a free 3 month trial last year), and in my opinion, the magazine hasn't been truly good since the mid 90's. It's better now than it used to be, but if NOA is pulling the plug, I won't complain. A major restructuring would be just as well, I suppose.
IGN also theorized that the magazine may be going third party (ie independent). The Official Dreamcast Magazine was also independently published, and it was fantastic because while the writers and editors were clearly huge Sega fans, they never pandered, either. If NP became like that, it would be great. Traditionally, however, Nintendo is too controlling to go for something like that.
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Post by wanderingshadow on May 15, 2007 6:45:49 GMT -5
I would believe it. Back in the '80s, Nintendo Power was created to tell us about the greatest new games and to help us with the games we couldn't beat. It was probably the best of the limited options. Now days, we can get both through the internet more effectively.
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 15, 2007 7:12:49 GMT -5
Actually, the European Nintendo magazines are externally published, so it's not a matter of control. Although they do control the license and can snatch it away... as they did to OUR awful Nintendo magazine just over a year ago! ;D
It's now a better magazine, but I don't buy it any more. I stick to Edge. You always know where you are with Edge magazine ;D
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Post by Dances in Undergarments on May 15, 2007 7:37:13 GMT -5
$13 poorer?
Seriously EDGE looks like a great magazine, but to hell with spending that much.
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Post by Smashchu on May 15, 2007 9:46:46 GMT -5
I blam the internet. It does make me a bit saddened. I use to love getting my NP in the mail. It was great. While a 3rd party may make it better, I fear they may be sloppy with it.
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 15, 2007 10:25:51 GMT -5
$13 poorer? Seriously EDGE looks like a great magazine, but to hell with spending that much. Videogame magazines in the UK are extortionate anyway. Edge used to cost way more than the other magazines, then about halfway through last year they all started charging the same amount. Edge is now a glossy, well-produced and well-written magazine that costs as much as any other crappy rag. I remember when the old Nintendo Official Magazine UK hit the £4 mark, and that wasn't worth half that amount. Seriously... how much money do you have to pay to read the scrawls of retarded monkeys?
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2007 10:45:37 GMT -5
Smashchu brings up a valid point: the internet has rendered gaming magazines more or less moot, especially in an age where people without the internet in the US, UK and Australia are a minority. Case in point, GameInformer and EGM (both asstastic mags, no doubt about it) published articles about the November SSBB update sometime in January. The lag of printed information is really hurting it, compared to the nigh-instantaneous win of the intarwebs.
On Nintendo Power itself, it's been dedicatedly unhelpful for as long as I've gotten it (I think my first issue was back in the late nineties, and I've subscribed to it in spurts here and there since then); the most use I got from it was a chart for all the different paths you can take in Star Fox Command, and even then it was only because there wasn't anything up on GameFAQs for it yet. I won't cry if it gets cancelled.
On a similar note, it looks like EGM is going the way of the dodo as well.
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Post by Wildcat on May 15, 2007 13:22:44 GMT -5
I'll be sad if the magazine dies. The content has vastly improved since it relaunched last time, and outside of some questionable cover choices, I can't complain. My subscription will be ending soon, so if it dies, I won't be too heartbroken. Still though, it'd be the end of an era.
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Post by mrmolecule on May 15, 2007 16:20:56 GMT -5
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I would be extremely surprised to find it gone, it did a major redesign one or two years ago. On a side note, it was NP's sister mag, NOM that was doing so terribly that NOE pulled the plug and relaunched ONM from ground one.
It needs a bit more work, and I will so complain if it goes dead.
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Post by Smashchu on May 16, 2007 8:47:28 GMT -5
Smashchu brings up a valid point: the internet has rendered gaming magazines more or less moot, especially in an age where people without the internet in the US, UK and Australia are a minority. Case in point, GameInformer and EGM (both asstastic mags, no doubt about it) published articles about the November SSBB update sometime in January. The lag of printed information is really hurting it, compared to the nigh-instantaneous win of the intarwebs. On Nintendo Power itself, it's been dedicatedly unhelpful for as long as I've gotten it (I think my first issue was back in the late nineties, and I've subscribed to it in spurts here and there since then); the most use I got from it was a chart for all the different paths you can take in Star Fox Command, and even then it was only because there wasn't anything up on GameFAQs for it yet. I won't cry if it gets cancelled. On a similar note, it looks like EGM is going the way of the dodo as well. But I do beleivee the writers and editors are aware of the propblem. In recent year, NP has started offering more interveiws and exclusives to try and counter this. But you can't beat the internet.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2007 17:20:36 GMT -5
Especially when all that exclusive content will just wind up on the internet anyway, through unnofficial routes like Wikipedia...
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Post by Old Man Rupee on May 18, 2007 15:48:56 GMT -5
True, the internet is THE place for up-to-the-minute news, but I still go out and buy Ngamer every month. Why? Mainly for the reviews (which tend to be spot-on), the sense of humour this particular writing team has, and release dates (because most websites I go to for news only focuses on US release dates).
Oh, and they trawl the internet for weird/fun/interesting websites. Seriously, they now have a whole section of the magazine dedicated to web addresses.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2007 16:25:48 GMT -5
See, that's a magazine that has something the internet can't readily offer. Nintendo Power (and EGM) only has halfassed cheatcodes, ass-kissery, and reviews that don't actually review how a game is.
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Post by mrmolecule on May 18, 2007 16:49:02 GMT -5
NP needs to go back to the 1997 era review type, where they showed the reviewer's personal thoughts, but based it on mechanics (sound, control, graphics, etc.)
Their Community section does have interesting websites, but it needs to be expanded. A lot.
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