GameInformer- Future US confirmed today it will end production of PlayStation: The Official Magazine with the last issue slated for the Holiday 2012 issue.
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Of course I have a cell and a nice comp setup, but I don't need to be plugged in all the time. Besides reading a print article can be much better as the latest Game Informer spent tons of space on in depth coverage of games something that isn't always translated to digital.
Oh, and I have good personal hygiene so I don't use my phone or tablet whilst I squeeze one out.
Print is dying, Newsweek is dead, print is going out the window never to return. Trees will thank the internet profusely in a few decades when print is gone and we can finally not feel guilty about not planting any trees ourselves.
Meanwhile, burning fuels will destroy our atmosphere and nuclear waste will pile high with no where to safely store it in a world of rapid population growth.
lol @ the turd in the punchbowl, replying to a comment I never made ^
That's right, I clearly said digital media will completely restore all of our environmental issues. Maybe he should've lived up to his username and just remained silent lmao.
That is a highly unsettling statement. True of course, and that's what makes it so unsettling.
On topic, always sad to see another mag turn it's final page, I've always preferred magazines to digital. Reading off a screen for an hour or so tends to burn my retinas!
The point is that the trees won't have anyone to thank because we'll be too busy creating more electricity to fuel those electronics. Some environmentalists don't realize that their electric cars don't run on magic.
Anyway, just saying. Sorry if I came off too accusative. But I think we'll need to plant more trees regardless.
@ Optimus Evidently intelligence is unfamiliar ground to you, as he clearly stated in his third point it wasn't sarcasm.
@ Should've-stayed-silent Destroying trees is going to have a way worse affect on our atmosphere than me talking on my cell phone or using my laptop to read rather than print media. The future I was projecting was one without any print whatsoever, completely digital, thus no more trees to destroy.
@SilentNegotiator you have no argument I am sure online distribution is a lot more environmentally friendly then cutting down trees transporting them and chopping them and grinding them and printing on them then polishing them and posting them to every single newsagent around the country and then collecting them from bins in trucks that start and stop every 5 meters and then burying or recycling them all of which is done with petrol and electricity from non renewable resources. Not to mention all the people that have to breath in and out during the labour hours which creates carbon dioxide!
Uploading a magazine and sending a few hundred gigabytes over the net and then running some processors to play them back is a lot more efficient.
Edit: And on top I see you are complaining about having to log in to view the material, I am sure it is easier then going to a store to buy it :P Excluding the fact you only have to type it once and let your browser remember it.
@knowyourstuff... Evidently math is unfamiliar ground to you as well. look at the time stamp, Einstein... (and he dares to go by "knowyourstuff", oh the irony.)
I really don't know why you take such offense. I even apologized on the off-chance that my first comment was too accusative. But pollution creates bad conditions for plant life. Trees are renewable. They may grow slowly, but with proper planning and rotation, we could save a lot of pollution by going the paper route for certain types of reads (books, magazines, etc; but probably not with daily news) than by relying on using electronics for all of our reading. Now, instead of mocking a username that is ALREADY purposely ironic, why don't you have a reasonable discussion?
"And on top I see you are complaining about having to log in to view the material, I am sure it is easier then going to a store to buy it :P Excluding the fact you only have to type it once and let your browser remember it" - No, the difficult part is when you're not somewhere with wifi and you can't read it at ALL.
Saw this comment... I have no words "Wow, first Nintendo Power shuts down, now this? One more idea that Sony stole from Nintendo I guess, lol. Where will people get their super biased information about consoles and their games now?"
Even though future owns both PTOM and nintendo power... my guess is xbox magazine will be discontinued soon as well
Meaning GI will be running a monopoly on magazines...
Only an idiot would see books disappearing as good. Hey Nostradumass guess what else wont be around forever? Internet, affordable food, affordable power. Peak Oil and overpopulation will have their day.
Books will not disappear because unlike most magazines they store more relevant information that provides easier access and does not need power in order to be read. Books can last hundreds of years while I don't know if electronic data will be able to survive that long considering the lifespan of most devices like hard drives :) Please educate yourself better before spewing off more nonsense.
It's the test you perform at the supermarket to ascertain the freshness of said bread.
By pinching the whole loaf you are easily able to determine the moisture content. This in turn provides information on the applicable 'freshness factor' of said food product.
Its because of the price. People used to buy this magazine at there extortionate price because it had the latest ps1 and ps2 demos on the front over. Nowadays there is a dvd disc YES DVD! with videos of the latest games. No playable demos any more and nothing worthwhile putting on the disc really that you cannot find on youtube. Yet they still charged the same price for the magazine. Of course people stopped buying it.
Tried to Pinch a Loaf at Von's when no one was looking to see if it was soft, oh it was... also squeezed the melons, and scratched the eggs, kicked the "fruit" it was a glorious day, it twaz
I like getting them when I'm heading off on a plane or train trip when I might not be able to connect to the internet. But other than that, I hardly ever buy mags anymore.
it's inevitable I quite enjoy the mag tbh and the posters are always a welcome addition! I have lots of game posters from the mag and here is where it excels imo.
but in this day and age where internet reign supreme, it's just a matter of time before everybody goes digital. I still think they should go with e-book style magazine and I think many will dig that! the same magazine, but digital, please!
Awww reminds me of when was a kid and came home from school to find my issue of EGM in the mail. I'd be so excited that I'd have to poop...which is what I did whilst reading my fantastic, brand new EGM. Kids of the future will never know that feeling and it makes me sad.
solution is just read political manifesto's whilst having a poo then when youre done you can wipe your arse with them i'd call that a win, win solution save a fortune on bog roll
It ended for these official mags when they stopped including the disc for me. I always enjoyed getting the demos, videos, and occasional DLC thrown in and was really looking forward to them doing it on bluray with the new Playstation Mag.....subscribed for the first year...no disc no renewal. And I do like having the print to read occasionally...still get the Game Informer Rag, but it never originally came with a disc...so there lol
Print is dying...this will not be the last magazine to go belly up. I suspect all major gaming mags will shift 100% online and ditch the printed page in the coming 2yrs or sooner.
its not free you half to pay for internet yes you can hijack and get free internet but they will find your ass eventually. Still though if we go 100% digital they can charge us online above our internet bills.
Huh? printed gaming journalism, always was and as long as it remains, be higher quality than internet sources (for the most part anyway).
Who would you believe? a company who invest money into researching sources and professional editing staff to keep written standards high, or some nerd who bought the www.GamesAreTehAwesumz.org URL and blows a BS hit baiting article to achieve views on his nonesense site?
As long as written journalism in games exist i will purchase it.
I listen to the podcasts these guys do too and they are all really nice guys that are easily to listen to and actually have an ounce of journalistic integrity. Despite knowing the utter BS attention grabbing headlines gets more money, they stuck by their guns and print fact over fiction, and they should be damn well praised for it.
I agree that while print magasines typically have better journalism, PTOM has been going downhill quality-wise for a long time. I was a longtime PSM subscriber before they changed over to PTOM and the quality didn't go downhill initially, but over time it has. In one of my last issues I had received before my subscription had run it's course (I let it expire), Greg Orlando says that Yakuza 4's complex plot actually HURTS the game. Since when does a great story HURT a game?? And that's not the only example I could cite, but since the PSM staff were gradually phased out and replaced with new staff, it's just gone downhill. I loved receiving print material (for use in the washroom, too) monthly and always wondered what was in the new issue. I just don't follow it anymore. I too, am a hygienic person and don't use my phone in the bathroom. I just get my information online these days like most other people.
All for the better. Only reason why we want to keep print around is for nostalgia. I'm buying a color e-ink portable reader as soon as they become affordable!
Magazines based on a single brand/platform of consoles are bound to disappear because of the lack of actual interesting content.
I do appreciate when magazines focus more on Indie titles and obscure games. Exploring certain games in interesting ways with articles and such because not everything in a magazine as to be informative but also entertaining but that really depends on which one we are talking about.
I was just about to cancel. Guess that saves me the trouble. All the news are here online much, much faster. No need for printed magazines like that anymore.
Let's face it. Paper Magazines you hold in your hands are dying. They've become irrelevant. We live in an age where we get instant news, pictures,videos, every second of the day. Where do Paper Magazines fit in?
Damn, this sucks. I was a subscriber for the first few years, now I really wish I would've stayed subscribed. I could have owned every issue for another 30 or 40 bucks. I used to love this magazine. I haven't seen them on store shelves in forever though. I wish they would keep PTOM alive at least digitally. I'd like to get it on my PS Vita.
I felt the editors fail to elevate the excitement for reading all things related to Playstation. I don't Subscribe to Nintendo Power but they did a better job in that aspect.
I find PTOM pretty dry. something is wrong when it's the DVD blu ray reviews that were one of the few things I eagerly wanted to read most each issue.
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Oh, and I have good personal hygiene so I don't use my phone or tablet whilst I squeeze one out.
I blame this mag's downfall all on him.
Meanwhile, burning fuels will destroy our atmosphere and nuclear waste will pile high with no where to safely store it in a world of rapid population growth.
That's right, I clearly said digital media will completely restore all of our environmental issues. Maybe he should've lived up to his username and just remained silent lmao.
That is a highly unsettling statement. True of course, and that's what makes it so unsettling.
On topic, always sad to see another mag turn it's final page, I've always preferred magazines to digital. Reading off a screen for an hour or so tends to burn my retinas!
The point is that the trees won't have anyone to thank because we'll be too busy creating more electricity to fuel those electronics. Some environmentalists don't realize that their electric cars don't run on magic.
Anyway, just saying. Sorry if I came off too accusative. But I think we'll need to plant more trees regardless.
Evidently intelligence is unfamiliar ground to you, as he clearly stated in his third point it wasn't sarcasm.
@ Should've-stayed-silent
Destroying trees is going to have a way worse affect on our atmosphere than me talking on my cell phone or using my laptop to read rather than print media. The future I was projecting was one without any print whatsoever, completely digital, thus no more trees to destroy.
Uploading a magazine and sending a few hundred gigabytes over the net and then running some processors to play them back is a lot more efficient.
Edit: And on top I see you are complaining about having to log in to view the material, I am sure it is easier then going to a store to buy it :P Excluding the fact you only have to type it once and let your browser remember it.
I really don't know why you take such offense. I even apologized on the off-chance that my first comment was too accusative. But pollution creates bad conditions for plant life. Trees are renewable. They may grow slowly, but with proper planning and rotation, we could save a lot of pollution by going the paper route for certain types of reads (books, magazines, etc; but probably not with daily news) than by relying on using electronics for all of our reading. Now, instead of mocking a username that is ALREADY purposely ironic, why don't you have a reasonable discussion?
"And on top I see you are complaining about having to log in to view the material, I am sure it is easier then going to a store to buy it :P Excluding the fact you only have to type it once and let your browser remember it"
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No, the difficult part is when you're not somewhere with wifi and you can't read it at ALL.
"Wow, first Nintendo Power shuts down, now this? One more idea that Sony stole from Nintendo I guess, lol. Where will people get their super biased information about consoles and their games now?"
Even though future owns both PTOM and nintendo power... my guess is xbox magazine will be discontinued soon as well
Meaning GI will be running a monopoly on magazines...
The issue that featured GoW: Ascension had no new information or screenshots that we haven't seen online already.
whats the point.
There is no way a magazine can come close to that anymore.
truth hurts but thats the reason
more will close,this is just the start.
everything will be digital
books will disapear too...its a matter of time.
Only an idiot would see books disappearing as good. Hey Nostradumass guess what else wont be around forever? Internet, affordable food, affordable power. Peak Oil and overpopulation will have their day.
Who knows?
By pinching the whole loaf you are easily able to determine the moisture content. This in turn provides information on the applicable 'freshness factor' of said food product.
Indeed~!
True story
Gaming Magazines are pointless in this day and age.
But other than that, I hardly ever buy mags anymore.
I quite enjoy the mag tbh and the posters are always a welcome addition! I have lots of game posters from the mag and here is where it excels imo.
but in this day and age where internet reign supreme, it's just a matter of time before everybody goes digital. I still think they should go with e-book style magazine and I think many will dig that! the same magazine, but digital, please!
i like magazines but i guess everything is going digital now
Anyway, another casualty caused by the internet.
On the plus side, more trees kept alive now.
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But its still kinda sad in a way...
Who would you believe? a company who invest money into researching sources and professional editing staff to keep written standards high, or some nerd who bought the www.GamesAreTehAwesumz.org URL and blows a BS hit baiting article to achieve views on his nonesense site?
As long as written journalism in games exist i will purchase it.
I listen to the podcasts these guys do too and they are all really nice guys that are easily to listen to and actually have an ounce of journalistic integrity. Despite knowing the utter BS attention grabbing headlines gets more money, they stuck by their guns and print fact over fiction, and they should be damn well praised for it.
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Trees are magical!!
Game Consoles Will Die, all of them
I was a fan of this magazine during the PS1-PS2 era aswell. Its where I discovered Tony Hawk and many other games.
I think DivineAssault is on to somthing. I can see an App for gaming magazines on mobile devices.
Their most recent one was year subscription OPM + free PS All Stars game (both PS3 on disc and PSVita download) for 54 Euro.
Game in shops will cost 60 to 65 Euro. That still gets them subscribers I guess.
I do appreciate when magazines focus more on Indie titles and obscure games. Exploring certain games in interesting ways with articles and such because not everything in a magazine as to be informative but also entertaining but that really depends on which one we are talking about.
That's the joke. Not to mention the intentional misspelling of "peace."
I find PTOM pretty dry. something is wrong when it's the DVD blu ray reviews that were one of the few things I eagerly wanted to read most each issue.
Thank G_d the library is a public service in the US.... at least for now.