Is Nintendo unwittingly nailing gaming print mag coffins shut?

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I would say yes.

When I got my Wii as a gift, the person working at EB managed to convince the person buying it for me to get a subscription to Game Informer, which she did because the guy working there *did* hide the Wii for her against company policy, so she let him get the extra commission from the sale or whatever.

The point is, I got a subscription to Game Informer with my Wii. in the 12 months I got the magazine, there was not one Wii game as the main focus of the cover. Very few of the articles written were about Wii games, and they got the shortest shrift in (p)reviews in terms of pages, as well.

If they aren't even going to *try* to cater to 50% of the market, let them struggle even more for profitability when they are already struggling due to the internet.

Also, it seems to me like PS3/360 owners are more likely to be the people searching for news on the internet, although I have no data to back that up. Wouldn't you think that the more 'casual' (even though i hate that term) userbase of the Wii would be more likely to appreciate a magazine that catered to things they cared about? Wouldn't you think that they would be more likely to learn something new from the magazine in the first place?