Nintendo Power shutting down

Havent read NP in years, but subscribed as a kid... had the first issue for years before i finally tossed it. Glad all the contributors to the mag seem to have a job still.

A real shame.

ONM = POS

I still subscribe to the magazine and I'm very sad to hear that it will soon be gone.  I have been camping for the last week and had not heard the news until now.  Seeing this mag in my mailbox each month was always exciting for me.  This sucks. 

Hope it doesn't completely die out and it still comes out as a site or something.  Hope Nintendo gives it a thought.  I remembered when EGM stopped.  Felt something died.

That makes me sad. I have every issue. Hopefully like egm it will be resurrected.

I'll cast my vote for the original Nintendo Power magazine when NES games were being covered. Great times and memories - wish the younger of you would have been born by then so you could have enjoyed those early days with the rest of us ; )

Everyone keeps listing Game Informer as their favorite magazine.  I just wanted to throw out that EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) and PC Gamer are my favorite gaming magazines.  I was EXTREMELY sad to see EGM go under some years ago, and was elated to see it was being brought back under new ownership.  I subscribe to both and am always VERY excited to see them in my mailbox.  I think print is still viable if operated the right way, and wouldn't read even 10% of the gaming stories I do now if I was forced to read them online.  As I said before, there is just something about having that physical paper in your hands that makes reading so much more enjoyable........

"digital initiatives that Future saw as necessary for the long-term health of the brand."

That was the disagreement with Nintendo and it makes sense. As much as I love ole Ninty, they are stuck in the past. The limited tech and online capabilities of the Wii and 3DS attest to that. They make it so difficult for third party developers to make games for these systems with limited resources and wonky controls. 

lol Nintendo Power? Seriously? hahahahah Good riddance.

The ONLY game magazine worth subscribing to is Game Informer. Everything else I have read was total crap. Especially for the price.

Nintendo Power used to be awesome. We used to be very excited waiting around for it to come, and would save issues as long as you could save anything in our house. This doesn't seem like sad news to me though, it has been a long time since I thought magazines served any purpose at all.

Wow this is very sad news. Best of luck to everyone working at Nintendo Power hunt for employment, I wish you well.

I, for one, will be picking up an issue for old time's sake.

Another part of my childhood gone

I think I have a really old Nintendo Power from the early 90s... wonder if it is worth anything.  but this is sad. I used to read Official Playstation Magazine (prior to the current rag by that name) and Electronic Gamer Monthly, but they both folded.  I had a subscription to the xbox mag, but I didn't renew when it expired half a year ago... and the last 6 issues I recieved, I have not even opened yet. I used to prefer a magazine over a website like Gamespot but that has changed. I still prefer an article to a video though,  unless it is something like a feature (start/select, escape from mount stupid, etc.)

R.I.P. 

I guess you can only write so many articles on Wii Bowling before grandma gets bored ;-)

Seriously I think Nintendo is difficult to work with across the board. I personally experienced that with Nintendo people in Australia.

If Nintendo took control back over, I'd totally buy Nintendo Power. That magazine was good back then.

Noooooooo! It's like a staple of gaming. I don't subscribe to it however, and GameInformer is my favorite magazine, but still sad to see it go. I think EGM went out early last year, now Nintendo Power? I still miss Sega Visions! Lol

That's too bad. Great magazine! :(

I was buying magazines here and there until this year when I decided to subscribe. I was actually hoping they would begin publishing this magazine in some e-reader-capable format like they do with Official XBOX Magazine.  Maybe Nintendo made such a transition difficult.

Anyways, I hate to see venerable, long-lived institutions in the gaming space disappear.  I know that change is inevitable, but losing a 24-year-old gaming magazine is like losing a 600-year-old tree...you just feel like a piece of history has gone missing.

So yeah, 's'at mean that other magazines phase out too...? Hopefully?

Bye, Nintendo Power...I'll miss your signature artwork, subscription fees, and all the space you take up in boxes. Makes me kind of teary-eyed when I think of trying to fill the space, like with Gamefaqs, which as you know takes up no physical space...

LMAO... I thought this magazine closed down over a decade ago lol. People still buy this magazine? What do they write about? Nintendo doesn't have many Wii games of interest for the last 2 years, at least not enough to make a magazine worth.

Another bites the dust.  I've been a subscriber of Nintendo Power from 1990-2000.  Ahhh memories...

It sucks that NP's shutting down, but in this day and age I can't say I'm surprised. :/ I wasn't a regular subscriber but I had some issues here and there. The ones I remember fondly were the Sept.1991 vol. 28 which gave me a lot of info on the SNES and also the Super Mario 3 players guide.

I STILL can't get those posters out of the magazine without tearing it in two.

Wow, end of an era. I remember when I was a kid waiting to get my next issue in the mail and see the maps with all the secrets on them. I tip my hat down to you Nintendo Power you will be missed.

Wow....still kind of downer to hear. Total bs though how Nintendo yet again doesn't even want to be flexible w/ publications that are trying to promote and change w/ the times (in terms of how most mags are doing either more digital things or moving to digital entirely). That's fucked up, honestly. :(

In my opinion, it is sad that most of the video games I see in the recent Nintendo Power on the Wii, DS, and 3DS are casual video games for casual gamers.

Sad, but expected.

Wow, I didnt even realize it was still around in the first place last issue i ever actually used was the Metroid one...and oh what a great issue that was.

24 year run. Not bad. Sad to c it go though. Oh well. All good things must come to an end.

Now where will I be able to get my NES cheat codes?

This is thanks to the Wii hole. Nothing but mediocre games not worthy of being reviewed or featured in a magazine. Nintendo did this to Nintendo Power.

I have some friends who are huge nintendo power fans they're gonna angry