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"The Death of the Games mag"

Does anyone buy game magazines anymore? i ask this as the only mag i bought recently is the official PS2 magazine and that was mainly for the demo's.

I don't buy PC mags anymore the reason why being the internet. if i want a game demo i'll download it if i want a game review i'll go to a web site if i want gaming news i can get that from the web to.

Now with all these consoles allowing internet access of some kind in the future will this finaly kill the magazines off completley?

I mean it will be possible to download demo's (which they'll probably charge for) ect

Also do you think piracy will increase as some wise guy is bound to make a web site where you can download games (the pc as shed loads callled warez sites)

what are your opinions on this, do you think magazines will die off because of the web and do you think piracy will increase as connections get faster?

I'm getting a subcription to PSW for X-mas.

So, yes. I do still read games mags, if you dodn't realise.



(the new PSW's out already)

Mattyboy wrote:
I buy loads of mags each month and always enjoy reading them!!

Same. Pretty cool eh?

I buy PSW every month. Well, I bought it last month, but I plan to buy it every month. :-D

I like the DVD and like the quick reads you can do.


In fact, the new PSW is out tomorrow isn't it?

I buy loads of mags each month and always enjoy reading them!!

I love magazines, so every month I get a copy of Official Playstation 2 Magazine, PSM2 and PSW. The reaosn for this is that I can get information in a short time, say if I want a strategy guide that was in this month's PSM2 I can get it very quickly and I can use it as I play the game. Plus I like the footages on the DVDs as I dont have a fast connection to download the good quality one on the net.

Games Master will never die! Neither will NOM. Mainly for reasons such as they are read by over 60 million people a year.

I but NGC and NOM. By the way NGC isn't monthly, there's 13 issues a year

uk_vamp wrote:
> what about a laptop to use in the bath :)

You wouldnt want to drop it, would you? You might as well take a toaster with you as well.

i find when im reading mags i know most of the news because ive seen it on the internet. but i still buy them.

Solskjaer_24 wrote:
> I buy NGC, being a huge GameCube fan, ad I STILL buy GamesMaster. I've been
> buying it ever since it was on TV. I prefer NGC though, cuz it's more focused on
> Nintendo. And GamesMaster's good cuz you can compare different consoles and lots
> of different games. But I don't see why NGC costs 45p more than GM, especially
> when they're both monthly mags, and both have the same publisher! It really is
> too much having to pay £3.30 for a magazine! GM's still quite expansive at
> £2.85, but at least it's monthly, not weekly.

they probably have different numer of readers and different reviewers to pay there's loads of reasons but really i see no point in game mags anymore apart from the console ones with Demo disks