EGM's passing, what does it mean, if anything?

[Onyxmeth]

mike_intellivision said:

Onyxmeth said:

It's just the way of the world. A lot of magazines are going to go under to concentrate full time on a website. The last man standing will be Game Informer.

I have doubts about that. The last two issues of GI have been 88 and 96 pages respectively. More troubling is that each had only 13 pages of ads (including covers). That's not enough to fund a magazine. 

Then you add in an editorial staff/policy that is ambivalent (at best) to antagonistic (at worst) to the Wii (even though its own survey showed there were more Wii owners reading the magazine than PS3 owners). Combine that with a tendency to hype games long before they are released (the games featured on the Dec. 2007 and Jan. 2008 covers were dropped by Activision -- Ghostbusters and Brutal Legend; the reported rumored new GTA retail game for 2009 has been denied by Rock Star).

The result is a magazine that is not writing for its readers but for itself. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, unless you are trying to sell it.

 

Back to the OP -- it is terrible to see anything with a rich history end. But as been noted elsewhere, too many print outlets are still writing like they did in "historical" times. When you were the only source of info, six week old stuff was great. Now, it is just six weeks out of date -- and often modified or debunked.

 

Mike from Morgantown

 

I was speaking more along the lines of Gamestop keeping it alive since it's a centerpiece in selling their cards program. Gamestop makes enough money to fund this magazine if ad pages decrease I believe.