Magazine Claims Nintendo Untrustworthy on Zelda Revolution
Because it's obvious...?
Tepid, low-selling Nintendo rag NGC has claimed that it is a more trustworthy source than Nintendo on all things Zelda and the game's rumoured Revolution functionality.
Speaking to Press Start, the magazine's downtrodden editor Martin Kitts (NGC has seen a staggering slump in readers, to the tune of a loss of around 60% in just over two years) refutes Nintendo's semi-denial that Twilight Princess will involve Revolution controller functionality.
"The news came from somebody senior at Nintendo who, admittedly, probably shouldn't have let it slip before E3. But they did, and we would have been crazy not to print it. Next thing you know, instead of a brilliant news exclusive, we've got somebody else at Nintendo issuing a carefully worded non-denial, and various sites that specialise in rumours are telling the world that NGC is not to be trusted. So to clear things up, that news piece wasn't a load of bull - it's direct from the people who are making the game." That's quite an assertion...
Of course, Twilight Princess making use of the Revolution's controller has been the stuff of Internet forum debate for months, long before any print magazine decided to announce as fact this interesting and possible cross-generation concept. The news does make sense to some degree, with Zelda expected to launch alongside the Revolution as the console's flagship backwards-compatible title.
Of course, it is possible that NGC did hear from someone at Nintendo that Zelda would use the Revolution controller, though SPOnG imagines that running such information would put NGC in something of a difficult position. With readership now at a barely sustainable 13,670, upsetting Nintendo would likely prove disastrous. Consider all this, then add the fact that the magazine is seemingly forgotten by publisher Future (its site hasn't been updated since 2003) who recently acquired the rights to publish the Official Nintendo Magazine in the UK, and Mr Mitts could well be out of a job irrespective of any E3 Zelda announcement.
We'll let you know either way.
Speaking to Press Start, the magazine's downtrodden editor Martin Kitts (NGC has seen a staggering slump in readers, to the tune of a loss of around 60% in just over two years) refutes Nintendo's semi-denial that Twilight Princess will involve Revolution controller functionality.
"The news came from somebody senior at Nintendo who, admittedly, probably shouldn't have let it slip before E3. But they did, and we would have been crazy not to print it. Next thing you know, instead of a brilliant news exclusive, we've got somebody else at Nintendo issuing a carefully worded non-denial, and various sites that specialise in rumours are telling the world that NGC is not to be trusted. So to clear things up, that news piece wasn't a load of bull - it's direct from the people who are making the game." That's quite an assertion...
Of course, Twilight Princess making use of the Revolution's controller has been the stuff of Internet forum debate for months, long before any print magazine decided to announce as fact this interesting and possible cross-generation concept. The news does make sense to some degree, with Zelda expected to launch alongside the Revolution as the console's flagship backwards-compatible title.
Of course, it is possible that NGC did hear from someone at Nintendo that Zelda would use the Revolution controller, though SPOnG imagines that running such information would put NGC in something of a difficult position. With readership now at a barely sustainable 13,670, upsetting Nintendo would likely prove disastrous. Consider all this, then add the fact that the magazine is seemingly forgotten by publisher Future (its site hasn't been updated since 2003) who recently acquired the rights to publish the Official Nintendo Magazine in the UK, and Mr Mitts could well be out of a job irrespective of any E3 Zelda announcement.
We'll let you know either way.
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jwstacey 12 Jan 2006 11:03
1/15
As long as they don't choose to move the staff onto the ONM. I wasn't happy when I found emap weren't to be publishing ONM any more and all the team were going. Stick the team from NGC in charge and we will have no damn ONM.
fluffstardx 12 Jan 2006 12:02
2/15
NGC stopped being good when Wil stopped doing the art (having been employed by Rare to do theirs instead after his amazing Perfect Dark artwork in N64 magazine as it was known before the new console rename) and most of the staff jumped ship.
To be brutally honest I don't want extra functionality when i put Z:TTP in the Rev I plan on getting. I want it to just play...
To be brutally honest I don't want extra functionality when i put Z:TTP in the Rev I plan on getting. I want it to just play...
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majin dboy 12 Jan 2006 13:31
3/15
how many hits do spong get a day?
just incase NGC mite be reading this,here is my suggestion...dump the mag,make a website a write for that.NGC had some good articles and good features.but the fact is,times change and its only a matter of time before a lot of mags start to feel the efect of the internet.The reason i stopped buying NGC was because i found news on the internet much faster.i bought it since in issue 10,havnt bought it a few months.
just incase NGC mite be reading this,here is my suggestion...dump the mag,make a website a write for that.NGC had some good articles and good features.but the fact is,times change and its only a matter of time before a lot of mags start to feel the efect of the internet.The reason i stopped buying NGC was because i found news on the internet much faster.i bought it since in issue 10,havnt bought it a few months.
TigerUppercut 12 Jan 2006 18:51
4/15
majin dboy wrote:
how many hits do spong get a day?
just incase NGC mite be reading this,here is my suggestion...dump the mag,make a website a write for that.NGC had some good articles and good features.but the fact is,times change and its only a matter of time before a lot of mags start to feel the efect of the internet.The reason i stopped buying NGC was because i found news on the internet much faster.i bought it since in issue 10,havnt bought it a few months.
just incase NGC mite be reading this,here is my suggestion...dump the mag,make a website a write for that.NGC had some good articles and good features.but the fact is,times change and its only a matter of time before a lot of mags start to feel the efect of the internet.The reason i stopped buying NGC was because i found news on the internet much faster.i bought it since in issue 10,havnt bought it a few months.
The difference in monthly readership between SPOnG and NGC is so huge, the figures hardly matter.
And NGC was quite good back in 2003 - since then it has, in my opinion, slowly become a collection of boring second-hand rubbish.
I think the slump in readership - a loss of 60% or so - prefectly reflects this.
realvictory 12 Jan 2006 19:40
5/15
majin dboy wrote:
how many hits do spong get a day?
just incase NGC mite be reading this,here is my suggestion...dump the mag,make a website a write for that.NGC had some good articles and good features.but the fact is,times change and its only a matter of time before a lot of mags start to feel the efect of the internet.The reason i stopped buying NGC was because i found news on the internet much faster.i bought it since in issue 10,havnt bought it a few months.
just incase NGC mite be reading this,here is my suggestion...dump the mag,make a website a write for that.NGC had some good articles and good features.but the fact is,times change and its only a matter of time before a lot of mags start to feel the efect of the internet.The reason i stopped buying NGC was because i found news on the internet much faster.i bought it since in issue 10,havnt bought it a few months.
I agree - you can't simply blame the staff. I don't buy magazines anymore either, because it comes out faster on the internet. It's nothing to do with the staff. I bought N64 magazine, and that was totally amazing.
The other thing is, in the UK, the Gamecube has quite a small number of users than other game consoles.
I don't really care about extra functionality at the moment, I just want the damn game! But it might be nice if it did have... then again, they could just make a patch for the game that you can download later on, anyway. They rerealeased the N64 ones for the Gamecube, didn't they? So they could even do that with the GC version later on.
chrisgoughstuff 13 Jan 2006 10:00
6/15
I'm sorry. What is the point of this story? What are Spong trying to do here? I don't understand. Here's the story so far: NGC have a good news story. They print it. If fizzles around the internet. Nintendo deny it (of course)... And Spong decides to kick their face off? Why? YOU CAN'T EVEN SAY THAT THE STORY ISN'T TRUE. You have to reluctantly admit at the end of your 'article' that "it is possible that NGC did hear from Nintendo that Zelda would use the Revolution controller." WHAT IS THE POINT OF YOUR POST? NGC are telling the truth and everyone knows it. Now go pick on someone else you pointless smug-faced self-serving losers. Or ideally just disappear up your internet portal.
fluffstardx 13 Jan 2006 10:40
7/15
Somebody's grouchy. Work for Future? XD
The point of the article is, NGC want the world to know that they know more than Nintendo. This is, of course, blatantly untrue. The Rev controller functionality was rumoured WAY before they mentioned it, and they claim to have it confirmed, but have no proof.
There is your article: "magazine says it can prove what everyone already thought would happen and then fails to prove anything.
The point of the article is, NGC want the world to know that they know more than Nintendo. This is, of course, blatantly untrue. The Rev controller functionality was rumoured WAY before they mentioned it, and they claim to have it confirmed, but have no proof.
There is your article: "magazine says it can prove what everyone already thought would happen and then fails to prove anything.
Mental? 13 Jan 2006 10:50
8/15
Good lord.
It's great to see you coming to the rescue of a well-informed piece of unbiased journalism and everything. Thank god that Spong can be trusted to provide the unadulterated truth, with no influence from friends or connections.
After all, NGC is only a magazine staffed by intelligent and creative people. Why trust them over the suited PR-bots that act as mouth-faces for Nintendo?
Here's the facts - Nintendo made an oopsie, NGC leapt on it and reported it honestly, but Nintendo don't want the info to be confirmed because it would interfere with their 'financial corporate strategy'. Oh, and don't forget that they actually shipped the Kids National Geographic over to see Zelda using the Rev controller. No one's complaining about that, are they?
It's great to see you coming to the rescue of a well-informed piece of unbiased journalism and everything. Thank god that Spong can be trusted to provide the unadulterated truth, with no influence from friends or connections.
After all, NGC is only a magazine staffed by intelligent and creative people. Why trust them over the suited PR-bots that act as mouth-faces for Nintendo?
Here's the facts - Nintendo made an oopsie, NGC leapt on it and reported it honestly, but Nintendo don't want the info to be confirmed because it would interfere with their 'financial corporate strategy'. Oh, and don't forget that they actually shipped the Kids National Geographic over to see Zelda using the Rev controller. No one's complaining about that, are they?
chrisgoughstuff 13 Jan 2006 10:51
9/15
And here's your article: "website writes load of old piss about nothing."
config 13 Jan 2006 12:58
10/15
fluffstardx wrote:
Somebody's grouchy. Work for Future? XD
Let's just say that Chris and Mental registered within five minutes of each other from the same IP address - an IP that looks up to Trowbridge, just down the road from Bath.
Oh, and one of the registrations shares the name with a staff writer on one of FP's games r^Hmags.
Two Future cops, or one masquerading in an attempt to boost their numbers?
Welcome guy(s). Share the love.
chrisgoughstuff 13 Jan 2006 13:16
11/15
Wow. The internet's amazing isn't it?
When it's not eating its own s**t.
When it's not eating its own s**t.
config 13 Jan 2006 13:35
12/15
...or the readership and livelihood of dead-tree publications.
tyrion 13 Jan 2006 13:45
13/15
Mental wrote:
After all, NGC is only a magazine staffed by intelligent and creative people. Why trust them over the suited PR-bots that act as mouth-faces for Nintendo?
I hope you don't work for NGC. I can see comments like that getting a staff writer into lots of trouble with the "suited PR-bots" who make sure magazines get their monthly "exclusive" content and advertising revenue.
fluffstardx 13 Jan 2006 18:26
14/15
Mental wrote:
Good lord.
It's great to see you coming to the rescue of a well-informed piece of unbiased journalism and everything. Thank god that Spong can be trusted to provide the unadulterated truth, with no influence from friends or connections.
After all, NGC is only a magazine staffed by intelligent and creative people. Why trust them over the suited PR-bots that act as mouth-faces for Nintendo?
Here's the facts - Nintendo made an oopsie, NGC leapt on it and reported it honestly, but Nintendo don't want the info to be confirmed because it would interfere with their 'financial corporate strategy'. Oh, and don't forget that they actually shipped the Kids National Geographic over to see Zelda using the Rev controller. No one's complaining about that, are they?
It's great to see you coming to the rescue of a well-informed piece of unbiased journalism and everything. Thank god that Spong can be trusted to provide the unadulterated truth, with no influence from friends or connections.
After all, NGC is only a magazine staffed by intelligent and creative people. Why trust them over the suited PR-bots that act as mouth-faces for Nintendo?
Here's the facts - Nintendo made an oopsie, NGC leapt on it and reported it honestly, but Nintendo don't want the info to be confirmed because it would interfere with their 'financial corporate strategy'. Oh, and don't forget that they actually shipped the Kids National Geographic over to see Zelda using the Rev controller. No one's complaining about that, are they?
As a former reader of NGC, I can now cry laughing.
I'm sorry, but this supposedly intelligent writing died post-N64. The magazine had a face change, and a lobotomy. Rather than shrink the mag, let's review Luigi's Mansion for 8 pages! Real intelligent. The new Zelda (Wind Waker, at the time), bar the obvious fact it's dull as dishwater, we shall champion as the best Zelda ever!
Sorry, the entire Future writing staff have become victims of their own seeming dominance. Hence the reason why GamesTM is so popular with people who've been gaming a long time: it's not Future, and writers say what they want.
If you want further demonstration of the lack of brains at Future, look at your lack of ass-covering. I mean, for God's sake, at least post from home! Busted. And not the boy band.
And, as I said, the rumours of such functionality have been around since the trailer. Don't try push it as exclusive.
majin dboy 14 Jan 2006 02:48
15/15
brilliant,NGC read Spong.i sent a letter into NGC once and the gang didnt publish it.ragin.
i use to get NGC on release day religiously and read it front to back. I loved the features/previews they did on Perfect Dark.
IF NGC READ THIS******
hello my name is dominic,i use to love your magazine,what happend?i enjoy going to the movies,long walks in the cold and pussy.
********
no others cept NGC can reply of refer to anything between the (*)
i use to get NGC on release day religiously and read it front to back. I loved the features/previews they did on Perfect Dark.
IF NGC READ THIS******
hello my name is dominic,i use to love your magazine,what happend?i enjoy going to the movies,long walks in the cold and pussy.
********
no others cept NGC can reply of refer to anything between the (*)