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Gaming magazine's readership declining |
Listed in: Wii, PS3, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Future Publishing, Nintendo Magazine, Official PlayStation Magazine, PC Gamer, PlayStation Magazine
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Gamers are now preferring other media for gaming information, it would seem, as the latest figures have revealed that uni-platform gaming magazines are in continuing decline.ABC has revealed that many Future and Imagine titles has fallen once again. While the sales figures for the Official PlayStation Magazine 3 were not provided, OPSM2's monthly circulation is down by 24 percent from the August 2006 figures, hitting 76,351.
Official Xbox 360 sales, however, were boosted coming up from 42,680 to just over 56,000. A very good news for publisher Future, since it has closed Official Xbox publication recently.
Without the OPSM3 figures, monthly sales of the official titles went down to 175,368, compared to 218,863 six months ago.
In the lead in the unofficial mag titles is Imagine-published Play, with sales of 29,000 despite a 37.5 percent drop in readership compared to last year. Future's PSW figures went down from nearly 34,500 to just over 26,000 copies. Other Imagine titles went down with the following statistics: Powerstation with 15,171 copies from 22, 288 last year, 360 with 11,369 copies from 13,098.
Future published PC gaming titles went down with the following numbers: PC Zone from just over 30,000 to 27,000 while PC Gamer lost 1675 readers, hitting just over 43,600. The decline for PC titles appears to be slow but steady.
The bright spot for these gaming magazine publishers were seen in the stable sales position of multi-platform magazines. Future's Games Master sales hovers around the 54,000 mark while Imagine's Games TM sales stays at 20,000. Future's Edge sales also rose up to four percent from 33,597 to 35,145.
Recently, Nintendo has been grabbing a lot readers' attention, it would seem, after a 17 percent rise in the sales of Official Nintendo Magazine, with readers buying 43,000 copies a month.
James Ashton of Future Publishing complained that the falling magazine sales are to be blamed on the rapid transition to next-generation consoles and the rise in the amount of video game coverage in the mainstream media. Guess we'll be seeing more of you guys checking out this site!
Via Mediatel
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Why pay four to eight bucks for a magazine that is outdated before it hits the newstand, when most people already have Internet at home (not "free", but you already pay for it) that can give them INSTANT updates on information, instead of waiting weeks or months for a magazine to catch up.
I love magazines; when I was a kid through early adulthood I had stacks of them everywhere. It really was the best way to stay current on most topics. The internet has changed all of that - magazines are simply dying, because a better alternative has been found. Magazines were a means to an end, not the end in themselves.
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Also, what I read in one of those mags is already outdated by weeks on the internet in various blogs (such as QJ) and forums.
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Beside when they review a game on x-play they can show you the problems a lot easier than they can in a mag.
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People just talk about "soap opera" of gaming instead of games now a days..
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Honestly, I think magazines should be getting phased out in the next 10 years. Apple, Sony and MS will get smart and add in .PDF and .TXT reading cababilities into their next media players (hopefully, if not next, then one of them within 3-5 yrs), then we just need publishing companies to start making everything available in nice PDF's....
SAVE TEH TREEZ !
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