We'll miss you: Official PlayStation Magazine discontinued |
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It's times like these that make game bloggers and journalists like myself cry. Mostly, it's because magazines are the format that brought the love of gaming to the forefront of many gamers' hearts. That is why it saddens me to say that the US version of "Official PlayStation Magazine" will be printing its final issue in January 2007.According to a statement by Ziff Davis, its American publisher, it seems the magazine doesn't fit the strategic vision of the company. Known by many readers to be the magazine that always has a demo disc of goodies inside, the PlayStation 3's online capabilities have apparently made the idea of demo discs obsolete.
Scott McCarthy, President of the Ziff Davis Game Group, explained the effect of the PS3's online capabilities on the market. "With this next generation of game consoles," he said, "the days of having to bundle a disc with a magazine to distribute games-related content are over. And the disc has clearly been a major driver for consumer interest in premium-priced, platform-specific magazines in the past, when the magazine disc was the only way gamers could get such content."
We're all going to miss the American "Official PlayStation Magazine". Hopefully, it's charm and words might still live on through the PS3, as the Ziff Davis Game Group is going to work with Sony to bring original content specifically for the PS3. Whether that means we'll see a PS3 version of the OPM remains to be seen, but it's a nice thought nevertheless.
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OPM SUCKED
OPM DID NOT SUCK, IT WAS AN AWESOME MAGZINE, AND I AM DISSAPOINTED TO SEE IT GONE.
man these *****ers better give us a good load of demos to start and they better give us *****en demos each month
noooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooo oooo.
o well. time to move on.
:(
quit fuc.king around qj.net staff. Put the PS3 link back on the "QJ.NET Blog Network" section! I don't know how much microsoft payed you to take it down, but that's just low.
well I be damm
The one thing that I didn't like is that it was so biased for sony products, personally I like truthful reviews.
Sony gets their IQ lowered as the days pass. Are every fckin PSM reader gonna get a ps3? ***** RETARDS! FCK FCK FCK FCK FCK FCK I FCKIN HATE THEM SO FCKIN MUCH
***** DIE SONY!
I hope I get my money back! OPM did kinda suck. I liked PSM a lot better but oh well.
Especially since I was getting it for free and had another 3 years on it...
Looks like someone needs some anger management...
It makes me sad to see such a great magazine discontinued in the US i was one of the first subscribers to OPM back in the days of playstation (a system the little kids dont really know about) I will miss it and they were a good magazine that started other magazines like OXM and PSM
i feel like someone died
why??? thats so dumb, just cuz they wont need to give out demo discs?? People actually read the magazine you know.. damn.. that stinks.. >:|
Reminds me of when the official Dreamcast mag tanked.. shortly thereafter... yeah... I aint sayin nothin, I'm just sayin
Are those guys CRAZY?! Why are they going to discontinue the magazine?! I'm going on a strike! Who's with me?!
Because they're discontinuing; you know quiting. So it wouldn't matter if you boycotted a product that they stopped selling.
You can find reviews anywhere on the net, there are enough magazines too. All OPM provided was a demo disc. If PS3 has as many downloadable demos as often as OPM provided each month them that would be awesome.
I read video game magazines a lot, but i didn't really read OPM. I always thought it was a good magazine when I did read it.
R.I.P. Is all I can say
Hmm well this is not very good news... how will i get information about playstation. They'll probably have a magazine, just no demo. Good news is, it'll prolly be cheaper because of no demo inside.
man that sucks i will sue miss stealing the Demo disc from Walmart... =(
yeah, i was thinking the same. I loved how they made the exclusive interviews of some certin up-coming game like mgs series and stuff....
Shame...:(
hahah me 2!
never bought the thing just stole the disc a lot.
your a *****in idiot... sont doesn control ANYTHING to do with the magazine, thats all ZIFF DAVIS. All sony does is approve the demos being gven out, etc. all the legal stuff so the company wont get sued.
learn ur facts b4 you cuss someone who doesnt have anything to do with the magazine.
this was the best playstation related magazine ever :( an now they are gone :'( .
i guess it was bound to happen sooner or later, magazines are becoming obsolete nowadays.
Sony is dying, slowly but surely!! yaaaay
yea well sony is the new dreamcast you know. I feel sorry for all the fools who are buying a dying console for the overpriced ammount. Dont feel bad though, you can still get a wii or 360 (which are both better I might add). Enjoy your dvd player that plays failed formats!
Yeah, your a journalist... pfft.
What I don't get is why they could not figure out a way to work with it and produce an online magazine to subscribe to, that people can download stuff to their ps3 as bonus material.
Like an online PS3 magazine subscription thing, for bonus material
People can still buy it at a price off the Sony marketplace or something, or whatever 3rd party system they may establish. but it would be sold individually instead of all as a whole bonus set to the subscription cost.
this is stupid move, i dont understand that.in UK there is opm2uk and today you can buy the first issue of brand new OPMUK:)
the OPmagazine in sweden stopped years ago =/ then I was sad.. but now, we have a FREE Gaming magazine that kicks ass, covering all current consoles ;)
but i do miss the demo discs i got with sOPM :(
Just don't include the Demo Disc!!!!!!
The magazine was great, I just loved reading it and getting the demos, but I can live without the demos...
Its so nice to see brilliantly printed images of games yet to come out for the playstation. Seriously, just remove the Demo Disc!!!!!!
"We'll Miss You"?
I won't.
OXM stayed around with demo discs when xblm featured demos...
not EVERYONE has online connection!
Same here - I also read games mags a lot, although I tend to concentrate on PC mags. With this in mind, I would say that PC owners have been able to download the demos available on that system for years.
However, it hasn't stopped publishers in the UK printing games review magazines, simply because they realise that its not all about the demos. People still like to read interesting and informative articles, and I personally like to keep my mags, so I can return to them whenever I like if I fancy a quick read, or need to check a review of a game I might have seen.
Also, despite the fact that all of the consoles are going to be able to hook up to the internet, not everyone will -
1/ Have a broadband connection
2/ Want to read online reviews
3/ Want to spend hours on end downloading demos that may well be a waste of time and effort.
I'm speaking from a UK point of view of course, but I'd have thought the same would probably apply to US playstation owners...
Tod you are a stupid *****whore, 360 is michael Jackson and Wii is the entire"Queer eye for the straight guy" cast! You buy your s.hitty as.s Wii or 360 and suckoff MJ bi.tch
Suck ba.lls B.itch! you co.ckwhore blow MJ F.UKUH
This is great news. One less biased magizine out there. I've been accused of being a fanboy, but I know better to trust a magizine that's "official". They can't give balanced reviews, and they don't. OPM rated games by how much they thought they would sale. Just like when the "official" XBOx magizine said there was really no need for backwards compatibility, that's because they knew it would be half-assed and tryed to convince you you didn't need it. That should be the next magizine canned.
Back on OPM, Think about it you paid 10 bucks for the demo disks, face it the mag sucked. Yet they still sell "jampacks", remember those. they have better demo's and are like 6 bucks, just buy those if you want demos. And then get a subscription to Game Informer, problem solved. Let's hope
I loved OPM for it's demos. I can see why they would leave. Sadly I have dial up and wont be able to go online with any next gen console. +(
Well there goes my demos (except for PSP demos)
i like opm i got my killzone liberation psp demo from them
Ziff Davis is for sale - and they don't have their heads screwed on right. So you dum asses - stop putting the disk in the mag and see what happens? Drop the price to $5.99 and see what kind of % of sales you get on the newsstand. Duh!
I'm sure the disk costs lots of money - but we're you charging like $10 for the magazine anyway? Maybe Sony took lots of the cash.
Who knows...bunch of bird brains at Ziff Davis...you've killed a great magazine. What's next?
you play em you get in to them then then stop..............
but guess thats the point to make you buy the game
I have a bunch of the disks I never took out of the pack.
I agree about that
Sony is still a good and thriving company though.
Dont forget sony also makes tvs(I own a sony wega) dvd players, new disc and formats (they made betamax and blu ray) and many other things.
I kind of do aggree ps is dying
i am a r3tard... someone shoot me!
Well, rest in peace OPM! I think Sony should transforming its official PS3 site into a fully featured online magazine. So instead of just brief info and trailers/screens, they should have proper editors to regularly publish articles, reviews, interviews, exclusive info, demo content, virtual goodies - everything ONLINE! This is the future, and thank me for the greatest idea :)
Any great surprise that a company recently forming a publishing 'alliance' with MS (Ziff Davis that is).. suddenly drops its PSM? welcome to the corporate world ppl...