Nintendo Power Magazine Has Lost the Battle With Gaming Sites

I guess every now and then we have to write some sad news too. The world isn't only peaches and pie and some good things vanish from our lives, with no way for return. OK, enough sentimental crap: "Massive layoffs" are on the horizon for the Nintendo Power magazine, as IGN's sources report. The mag's management has instructed the staff to look for new work by September.

I wasn't very familiar with Nintendo Power magazine and so I looked it up on Wikipedia. It says it is...better yet, was a monthly video games news and strategy magazine published by Nintendo, with the first issue published for July/August of 1988 spotlighting the NES game Super Mario Bros. 2. Since then, it remained one of the longest-running and most successful video game magazines in the United States. Guess that's all over now huh?

But why would something like this happen? Was nobobody buying the magazine anymore? Yes. OK, but again, WHY? Because of video game websites, obviously. Who buys a magazine if the same or even more information can be found just by pressing a few buttons and all this without having to get your a*s on the move?

Of course, magazines have a special something that no gaming website can offer: shiny pages and cover and the possibility to stash it in the basement and then discover it after 10 years, when your kids are second graders and your wife is giving you a hard time because you didn't take the trash out.