Are Technica is reporting that Nintendo Power is being shuttered and its staff is being mover to other publications within future. Kind of sucks but it was a ling time coming as print is a dying medium and print gaming just has two many disadvantages these days.
Weird as I was just reading an article in the new York times about the decline of the magazine medium mostly dealing with Newsweek.
no....n-n NO! Nooooooooooooooooooooo! I loved Nintendo Power. Oh man I loved the old magazine issues so much, and still enjoy reading the newer issues. Yes magazines are dying out and I knew this was going to happen eventually...but..seeing Nintendo Power near the end of it's life is so surreal. I'm going to miss it.
Hoisted by their own petard. Nintendo Power's refusal to join the rest of the planet in having an online presence doomed them. (Their website has no content at all, just a method of signing up for the print subscription.)
I have very fond memories of NP and was a faithful subscriber for about the first 9 years (If I still had all 200+ of the issues I compiled, in decent shape, I could make a KILLING on eBay; I have no idea what happened to them). I only gave it up when I went off to college.
It's sad, but they just couldn't expect to compete selling a paper product that was obsolete weeks before it was even printed, when similar information was available online, instantaneously, for free.
Wow guess I am going to have to get the final issue. It will go great in my collection with the first issue and issues 50 and 100. Truthfully though I never really liked NP since Nintendo stopped doing it. I thought the quality was alot better when the big N was in charge. I am hoping that maybe since Future publishing is dropping it Nintendo might pick it up again. Yeah I know wishful thinking.
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Unfortunately it's only going to get worse. I've been a long-time reader of PC Powerplay, an Australian magazine, and I'm frankly amazed that they've managed to stick around for so long. They're a great mag, but it's just so difficult for print magazines to survive in a world where it is literally impossible for them to be the first to publish breaking news without getting some sort of exclusivity deal.
If you're a monthly magazine, you really need some excellent reviews or feature content to be viable - back in the late 90s, when I started reading PCPP, I'd get all my PC gaming news from them once a month. Now I just get it online within a day (often just an hour or two) after the story breaks.
EDIT: Sorry @tvnewsguy, I didn't mean to repeat everything you said...
I think the saddest part about this is not being able to read stuff by Chris Hoffman. He was my favorite writer for the magazine, and I loved his articles and reviews.
@SquiggleTail that is something that everybody who ever read it will miss alot, all the crazy stuff that guy said in his column, "Don't Hassle The Hoff" some of the questions he got asked were funny (even that time when some kid mailed in his copy of LoZ spirit tracks or phantom hour glass and asked for help to pass a level) and all of his crazy responses. this past issue had a pretty good one, nothing less to expect from the Hoff.
Wow guess I am going to have to get the final issue. It will go great in my collection with the first issue and issues 50 and 100. Truthfully though I never really liked NP since Nintendo stopped doing it. I thought the quality was alot better when the big N was in charge. I am hoping that maybe since Future publishing is dropping it Nintendo might pick it up again. Yeah I know wishful thinking.
I have similar thoughts as well. I will pick up the final issue of Nintendo Power.. This is sad news indeed. Oh well, at least I got a bunch of the earlier issues that are such an awesome read.
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Wow....my dad got this starting in 1988, I was born in 1989, got this magizine for years, and still even check on it at news stands from time to time (even if it's not quite as good as it was in the 90's). I do miss the catalog with the cool Nintendo merch in it that used to show up in some old issues.
It's a bit sad for me to see Nintendo Power go...as cool as technology can be, I hate to see it kill off these old magizines.
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I can't believe it. I only started reading the magazine back in 2009, shortly after I discovered this site and the Nintendofanboy with in me. It seems that often get to the party a little late I started enjoying baseball recently even though it has gone through some it's worse years, Nintendo in a time when everybody's as written them off as a "Kiddie" company and of course this magazine.In the three years since I started reading it next to this site it has been my 2nd source of Nintendo news. I am glad they are not going digital as I would stopped reading NP if that were the case, but it is still sad to see them go. For some it is NP 1988-2012, but for me it is 2009-2012. Thank you NP.
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