Word on the street is, there have been quite a few layoffs at the offices of everyone's favorite '80s mag, Nintendo Power. Employees there are being told to "look for new work by September of this year," which could mean any number of things, from a simple restructuring of the publication to certain and inescapable death. Given the recent history of print journalism's success in this industry, we're betting on death.
It was awesome back in the day, and entertained me on many a boring bus ride before I got my first Walkman, but is anybody really reading it anymore? Does anybody care? Does it hurt when I poke you right here? Hit the comments and tell us what you think.
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9:49 PM on 05.15.2007
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That magazine sucked.
Nothing's the same after your first Workman, I'm sure.
Beyond the fact that the print magazine is dying, the whole outfit is a miserable, self-stroking ego attempt. They just pat themselves on the back for how awesome they're doing, with little to no regard to the titles and various other products they have released that have failed miserably both in sales and in reviews from other, less biased sources.
Let them die.
I still have some NP mags in an old old memento box.... ninja gaiden 1 walkthrough, Final fantasy 1, earthworm jim, sword & serpernts exclusive, lol, ill keep them till i die!
but I guess that shows nintendo, they better get with the program, or the disease might hit their console manufacturer next.
(/em summons summa)
If they had offered me three issues from 1989 I totally would have taken them, though.
Of course I probably should of said this about 10 years ago.
Nowadays, I really don't read it much after the first look-through when I get it. Good thing it comes with posters. That's really the only thing that I get excited about when a new magazine comes in.
Cheers,
Bradley
I <3 you HushGush
As for them reviewing Nintendo games positively always... yeah, they used to do that. But they also gave Geist (along with other first party games I can't think of) a positively shitty rating.
It's a shame. In the past year or two, they really started becoming a grown-up magazine. It'd be great if they kept a few writers for an online mag, but I doubt that'll happen if they told them to start searching for new jobs.
I'm not going to cry when they shoot that puppy.
then I can say I have the first issue AND THE LAST
I'm a die hard nintendo fan and my computer kind of sucks so I like being able to read a magazine, especially at school where I can't look at Nintendo information online and if I did, half the stuff would be written by ignorant people who can't spell.
I also find it hard to believe that NP is laying people off since they just added a new writer, and they seem to be doing pretty well.
And to all of you people who I mentioned, you were just intellectually owned by a 14 year old.