My Letter to Nintendo Power

Dylflon · 07-20-2004, 01:57 PM

Yeah, Nintendo Power pisses me off. It's just not a good magazine anymore. All the letters are from little kids and the sections that give you game previews are less text and more pictures.

Nintendo Power used to cater to a larger audience but now seems only to aim at the 5-11 year old demographic. It disgusts me.

I love OPM (official playstation magazine) though. It's aimed at teenagers and adults. It's a good magazine. Although it used to be a lot longer (averaging from 150-180 pages long) it now is almost always just above 120 pages. Also, there are a lot more ads than there used to be.

Dyne · 07-20-2004, 03:50 PM

All the posters lately have been lame. Stupid Licencing crap. Give me Nintendo posters, not multi-platform game posters. Like, I just got Spiderman 2. I would have much preferred a Four Swords poster. Or a Tales of Symphonia poster. These are all going up on my wall; I want posters of games I like. And everyone likes.

I also agree with your opinion. The brackets are stupid.

I still enjoy it as a magazine though.

Jason1 · 07-20-2004, 04:47 PM

I totally agree with that letter, but there is no way NP would ever put a letter than inteligent, and well written, in their magazine.

gekko · 07-20-2004, 05:36 PM

I've gotten published by Nintendo Power before. They re-write almost the entire letter, taking out a large portion and even adding some of their own words to it. They want to get the point across in the smallest amount of space.

Canyarion · 07-20-2004, 06:33 PM

I think they published mine once... but it didn't look like it at all and they even changed my name into something completely different.

Dyne · 07-20-2004, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gekko

I've gotten published by Nintendo Power before. They re-write almost the entire letter, taking out a large portion and even adding some of their own words to it. They want to get the point across in the smallest amount of space.

Which issue/letter?

gekko · 07-22-2004, 10:26 AM

Eek. Umm... try like April 2000, letter about DigiPen.

Not sure on the issue, and don't have my Nintendo Power magazines to search. Find a letter by Brian Ehlert via Internet.

Vampyr · 07-25-2004, 08:37 AM

Ok guys, I'm back from my week long stay at the University of Kentucky. (much fun was had, and many girls were flirted with.)

I want to say thanks to everyone who helped me out on editing it, and I'm going to change the things you mentioned, then send it in, and we'll see what happens.

I might try to find your letter later, Gekko.

+reps are also being handed out