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Kotaku 
12/03/08
I am also saddened by Nintendo's new direction. Maybe if we keep complaining they'll get off their ass and appease it's former core audience.
12/03/08
lets look at all the games nintendo have published in 2008.
endless ocean, brawl, mario kart, wii fit, mario super sluggers, wario land shake it, fatal frame IV, capt rainbow, wii music, disaster: day of crisis, and animal crossing.
granted, enless ocean was pretty lame looking, but first of all nintendo didnt develop it. arika did, the same company that was started by a co creator of street fighter II. so you mean to tell me because of wii music and wii fit.. nintendo has abandoned us? really? im pretty sure theyre doing business as usual.. and then some. i havent played capt rainbow, but it looks like a really interesting and "core" title. wario land shake it was short, but also one of the coolest looking 2d platformers ive played in a while. it played just like the gba games i really liked. fatal frame.. a survival horror tecmo game.. published by nintendo in japan. man those casual jerks!
i really dont get how they still catch all the flak when third parties arent doing their jobs. ubisoft, activision, and ea have completely abandoned putting real titles on the wii/ds.
off the top of my head.. nintendo is publishing punch out, sin and punishment 2, wii sports resort, and wii trace memory. a lot of non zelda, metroid, or mario games. i really dont see what the problem is here.. capcom and sega have been the only good supporters of the wii.
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microsoft published games in 2008: kingdom under fire - junk, ninja gaiden 2 - recycled, too human - junk, viva pinata - recycled, fable 2 - recycled, scene it - junk, gears of war 2 - recycled, banjo kazooie - recycled, lips - stolen from sony/konami..
sony published games in 2008: buzz quiz tv - junk, gran turismo 5 prologue - recycled, resistance 2 - recycled, hot shots golf 5 - recycled, mlb 08 the show - recycled, nba 09 - recycled, singstar 2 and 3 - recycled, socom - recycled, motorstorm pacific rift - recycled.
along with my wii, i own a ps3 and ive had 2 360s... i like all of the systems, and yes third parties have put out a string of crap on the wii way more than on 360/ps3. but my point is.. thats not nintendos fault. so whats your point?
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(Butt, ass... geddit? I'm on fire, ladies and gentlemen!)
12/03/08
It's likely that they're just trying to save face.
Since it says "suspend"...sounds like it's temporary anyway.
12/03/08
"Not making much money" would contribute to the fact that the core gamer no longer cares to buy the magazine, to read about the next WiiPlay phenom.
12/03/08
12/03/08
lets get real here, i subscribed to egm like 4 different times in my life, most recently in 2005. i didnt renew in 06, which is around the same time i regularly started visiting this site. no concidence there.
12/04/08
12/04/08
i realized how much the internet had impacted this when i started working nights a couple of years ago. Every night (or morning) when id get off of work, id rush home and log on to kotaku to see what i had missed. sometimes the news would be so incredible, itd semi-remind me of the glory days. the breaking of street fighter IV happened while i was at work. but the problem is, i check kotaku 4 or 5 times a day. from my phone when im bored on a lunch break, when i wake up, when i get home from work, right before i go to bed, etc. to be honest, being able to keep up with gaming news this much has taken a little bit of the bang out of it.
like i said, i love kotaku, but gaming blogs really did kill some of my childhood joys.
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Nintendo has always been cocky, they were just not in any position to act upon it the past 2 console generations before the Wii.
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Metroid Prime 3 bummed me out. While the controls were fun, they pretty much took out all the exploration on the game and the puzzles. It practically turned the game into one big on rails shooter.
I've loved Nintendo since the NES days, and I stuck by them during the GameCube days ... but I'm starting to loose my patience with them. If it wasn't for Resident Evil 4, The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess (which was also easy and light on puzzles), Super Mario Galaxy and No More Heroes, I would just sell the damn thing. I definitely feel like their focus is all about casual gaming these days, and gearing all of their games towards that audience ... even the "hardcore" games are easy as fuck now.
It's sad really. Nintendo is getting beat the fuck down this generation when it comes to games. Whoever called the Wii the most expensive board game ever is right. That's how I feel about it these days. Hell, my lady and I bought Wii Fit for fun ... and guess what it's doing now? Collecting dust, and then some.
Nintendo, you make a grown man like me cry. You prick bitches.
12/04/08
Where exactly do you people get this cocky vibe from? I mean really. Sure you hear an MS or Sony rep/CEO make obviously condescending remarks against Nintendo about how "kiddie" they are, but I'm not getting the same thing from Nintendo's top brass. I think you people are over exaggerating or demonizing the company simply because you don't like what they're doing. It's like saying EA is Evil or Microsoft is Evil because you think their products "suck."
12/04/08
I think Nintendo made better products when they were playing 2nd/3rd fiddle to MS & Sony.
12/04/08
@kingmanic: Yup.
@dead_red_eyes: Agreed. Haven't used mine in over 2 months now. I still take it for guests but that's it.
@Gundragon: Good point.
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So let me ask you this. Why are third parties more supportive to Sony and MSFT, and put out hell of a lot better games on those two systems, and not Nintendo?
Cant be just, "its all third parties fault", when it has been like this for 3 console generations.
Not to mention most were shit on in the NES and SNES days, 3 generations later, and third parties are still not on board fully ... so something has to be there to not entice them enough ... or they really were burned by Nintendo so badly, that they still ignore the number one console in sales.
You kind of think as well ... by Nintendo's new "casual" business model, that this doesn't have an impact on 3rd parties ... and thus they will only do mostly "casual" as well?
It all goes back to Nintendo, and how they are shaping this thing.
11/28/08
11/28/08
Worst examples of fanboyism ever.
11/27/08
it ruined the shit.
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12/03/08
Yeah, but most magazines are utter crap. We're going to see natural selection take place, where the rags get weeded out and all that will be left is the good stuff, which'll get all the money.
Ideally. It is possible that people are stupid and will simply give money to the magazines will all the pretty pictures.
I do believe the really professional journalists won't go over to web sites, because it just doesn't pay well enough. Either that or all the pro journalists will have to write in internet cafes between naps in cardboard boxes on the streets.
11/27/08
11/28/08
When going digital, you still have to pay for distribution (bandwidth) and salary, but the money saved on ink is phenomenal and bandwidth is much cheaper than real-world distribution costs.
Of course, all of this is a bit silly. Within the next 20 or so years the idea of monthly or weekly printed publications will be near extinction. Instead, people will just use e-book readers to read their local paper, various magazines, and so on. Printed novels will probably still be around, as the aesthetics for them is still too great for many to handle. Also, many complain of eye strain from reading off of e-book readers for several hours on end, which is how most books are enjoyed.
12/03/08
I don't think that magazines will ever go out of style completely, it'll just evolve into something different. Everyone thought radio would disappear with video, but it's still going. They just had to take different directions.
I predict that gaming magazines 25 years from now will become "elite" products that are characterized by much better writing. Reviews, images and all that flashy crap is easily reproduced online; quality, well-written articles, not so much. Plus, there is always going to be a certain class of people who just prefer to have the product in their hands, myself included.
By the way, don't think I'm saying gaming magazines have quality, well-written articles right now; I'm saying they'll need this if they want to evolve and survive. From all accounts I've heard, this "NRevolution" was a colorful substitute for toilet paper.
11/27/08
There is your problem.
11/27/08
...not that there's anything wrong with it.