Nintendo Power Dies (pretty much)

[A Black Falcon]

http://kotaku.com/gaming/alpha-mom-speak...263765.php

[Sacred Jellybean]

Having not subscribed to Nintendo Power in over a decade, I can't say that I care.

Who else was a subscriber at one point?

[Dark Jaguar]

That article says the opposite. It lives, but it's going third party.

Maybe it's for the best? Wasn't this magazine also a Japanese publication? Is that one still being done by Nintendo?

[Great Rumbler]

How does that article say anything about Nintendo Power dying?

[N-Man]

So it's not dying.

I had a subscription from volume 47 (Star Fox for SNES) to something like... volume 120 I think?

[Weltall]

I got a free subscription many, many years ago, around the time the SNES was released. I didn't renew, but I bought them at the stand semi-regularly.

[DMiller]

I never had a subscription but I bought issues every once in a while during the SNES days. My first thought was that this is a good thing for NP since it may loosen the kiddie image it has, but since Nintendo still will maintain editorial control more than likely it will not change much, if at all.

[Dark Jaguar]

I honestly haven't heard anyone call Nintendo "kiddie" in years. I'm pretty sure the only people who still think that are the dying breed known as fanboys. I mean, I think they are dying, or I may not hang around their natural habitats any more so I just don't see them, much like I don't see as many fairies as I used to but that's just because I haven't been frollicking in enchanted meadows as much as I might want to these days.

[DMiller]

I didn't mean to say people think of Nintendo as kiddie. I meant that the magazine tends to skew to a younger crowd. When is the last time anyone here picked up a Nintendo Power even though we are all huge Nintendo fans?

[Dark Jaguar]

I don't get it, but not because it "skews" to a younger crowd. It's because it is a blatant advertisement and it took a while for me to see through that. It's because every single scrap of news it provided, after the internet exploded with information on games, is old before it hits the first mail box. It's because the way everything is phrased is like everything in EVERY magazine is phrased, this sheltered "I've never heard an opinion outside a magazine in my life so I assume this is the way people actually talk and think" dialog they stick in there that just grates me the wrong way every time I read it. From "top ten most EXTREME platformers" to everything else I just have to wonder how long these media giants can keep the masses fooled into thinking they are being entertained and/or informed before the veil collapses.

[A Black Falcon]

Nintendo Power the in-house magazine is dead, so how could it be anything else? Will this new magazine have the NP look, design, staff, etc, or will it just be a generic "official" magazine like the other ones are? I don't want that... NP is/was a great magazine. I may not have subscribed in years (I did for two years from 1995-1997, but read it a lot more than that because the town library got (and still gets, I believe) NP, and I read it from there), but I still read it once in a while and it's still pretty good... this is definitely bad news.

I didn't mean to say people think of Nintendo as kiddie. I meant that the magazine tends to skew to a younger crowd. When is the last time anyone here picked up a Nintendo Power even though we are all huge Nintendo fans?

They tried to make it more "adult" in their redesign about a year and a half ago or so... I think it worked, but it still doesn't aim at adults, that is true. Still though... have you read it since their most recent redesign?

[Dark Jaguar]

I'd label it neutral news.

[Great Rumbler]

Who reads magazines?

[A Black Falcon]

Hey, print media isn't completely dead... I like to read the newspaper, and when I'm at home we get Newsweek and stuff so I read that... as for gaming magazines though, I'd have subscribed to NP again for sure if they'd have done the sane thing and started including a demo disc with the magazine when the GC came out. Why the heck hasn't Nintendo figured out that people like demos... :(

I don't know, I know that online media is faster and more comprehensive, but I still like magazines too...

[N-Man]

I like magazines. I missed getting comics in the mail every once in a while, and since I've somewhat outgrown Spirou I got a subscription to Heavy Metal. Which one of you was writing a grand epic space opera - was that you GR, or Edenmaster? Either way, I'm sure they'd dig Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

[Great Rumbler]

That's was me.

And I'm still writing it.