" This site seriously needs more Nintendo news its sad the first page can go back to January when so much has come out on the Wii in that time frame. "
The difference between ONM and NGamer though is the "official" moniker.
Trying to pretend that you are no different from anyone other games journalist when you are being paid and funded by the people who made the game you are reviewing is nonsense.
Sure, other people probably have the same opinion somewhere, but they are not being paid by Nintendo to express it. Unless it's under the table. We don't know! This conspiracy could go to the very top. (joke) "
I beg your pardon? We are not paid by, or funded by Nintendo. At all. Our license gives us early access to games and that's all. ONM is a Future Publishing magazine (as is NGamer) and we are employees of Future (as are NGamer). We are NOT on Nintendo's payroll, and the examples I gave in my initial post of low review scores for Nintendo games indicate this. Why would Nintendo pay us to say WarioWare Snapped doesn't work or that Mario Party 8 isn't fun? There's giving an opinion, and there's making completely wrong and offensive claims. I didn't spend four years at university getting my degree in journalism to be told what opinion to give. By all means have an opinion, but please use the truth to back it up and not complete lies. We are not being "paid and funded" by the people who make the games we review, because if we were that sort of corruption wouldn't have us on the newsstands for long. "
Perhaps you should consider changing the name of your publication to something other than "Official Nintendo Magazine," then. And, having taken a job at a publication with such a moniker, you should be totally unsurprised that the general public would come to the conclusion that you are on the Nintendo payroll, and respond with something other than emotional indignation when presented with that reality. "
I think most people are intelligent enough to know that such a moniker means only that they're licensed by Nintendo, not tun by them.
" In all fairness, OXM (offical xbox mag) used to do this type of stuff, too. Okay, not 6 different covers, but they would have a few to choose from on newsstands and an additional one for home subscribers. But, it's actions like this from publications that highlight the sentiment that the games press is just another arm of game marketing. In this case, Official Nintendo Magazine might as well have a cubical right next to the PR department at Nintendo HQ. Hype is one thing, shameless adoration is another. Still, there are economic reasons for this as well. Chances are the Nintendo faithful will collect several issues if they like the covers, plus people who don't normally buy gaming magazines might pick up a copy if it has lots of coverage and secrets to this latest installment in the Mario franchise. Every issue sold validates a print magazine's existence. "
Allgames magazines are doing this in varying degrees because of the current climate. If you look in the typical "Next Month" pages you'll often find text very much akin to what's found in the Future's PR. Print mags, god bless them, are forced to do whatever they can to keep issues flying off the shelves and subscriptions up, Multiple covers and such slogans are an age old way of doing this.
ONM isn't Nintendo Power in the early 90's, their reviews scores to date prove this well.
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