IGN: "Has Nintendo Cooked the Golden Goose?"

[mike_intellivision]

Nightbringer said:

Nintendo is ignoring the online media like IGN for announcing third partie exclusives and their games, Excitebots wasn´t announced in IGN, Gamespot or 1up, it was announced in Nintendo Power and we can say the same for a lot of games.

They were unable to predict the new Zelda for DS, Red Steel 2 was known because the magazine that had the exclusive talked about it months before it appeared in the issue but they were unable to see the Rabbids game. If at the end EDGE will be the ones who will reveal Pikmin 3 instead of IGN wait for another torrent of crying.

 

This is why I took out a subscription to Nintendo Power. I was tired of the Wii being "ignored" by the other segments of the gaming press.

Game Informer (which I get because it comes with the discount card for free) has been against the Wii since Nintendo would not provide it with advanced details for a pre-launch story.

The on-line sites (and most of the magazines) cater to a certain type of user -- while ignoring many types of Wii users covered by the Blue Ocean strategy.

(The same -- to a lesser extent -- appears to be true about the DS. However, since it is so dominant and since I don't own one directly (my son has one), I cannot say that I have paid as much attention to that sitution).

Mike from Morgantown