@ahmadchannel2 @BY2K I am always in talks with Nintendo
— Andy McNamara (@TheRealAndyMc) March 3, 2015
You’ve probably noticed that as of late Game Informer cover story reveals are usually about brand new Xbox One and PlayStation 4 games in development. However, Andy McNamara, Editor-In-Chief of Game Informer, has said on Twitter that he’s always in talks with Nintendo to have one of their games as the cover reveal. Would you like to see a brand new Nintendo game on the front of Game Informer or rather see it revealed in a Nintendo Direct?
Thanks, Ahmad
They’ll definitely reveal it in a Nintendo Direct. However, it could be a game already announced…Zelda is likely and maybe even Star Fox.
I don’t really go for Game Informer, but it could be nice. Xenoblade X I believe would be nice, or Star Fox.
Game stop forces a Game Informer subscription down my throat every time I renew my pro-membership… It’s probably the only reason G.I. still exists. Both GS and GI are sinking ships.
Well, it is the same company and the pro-membership includes the subscription, so I don’t know how it’s forcing it down your throat if you’re the one renewing it “every time.”
If you don’t want the subscription, I’d say get the Best Buy Gamers Club Unlocked over GameStop’s Power Up Rewards card. At least with Best Buy you get something like 20% off all new games, plus extra rewards points and trade-in bonuses. No magazine sub required. Regular price is $100 for two years but BBY seems to be doing promotions a lot. I got my membership for free with a $15 purchase.
I let my GameStop PUR Pro membership expire a year or two ago.
I don’t even remember the last time I saw a Nintendo cover. But there’s usually one or two Nintendo articles inside. Good thing I care about the articles more.
As someone who has been subscribed to the magazine since it looked like a comic book kept together with staples. I can say I’ve seen plenty of Nintendo related covers. Its not a Nintendo only oriented magazine, I would imagine Zelda U gets a fairly awesome cover. And hopefully with that issue I get more glorious information! !
This is not to say that Nintendo’s games don’t deserve covers. Because there’s plenty of games that deserved them over others.
My ass. Majora’s Mask remake? No cover. Metroid Prime 3/trilogy? No cover. Even fucking Smash Bros. and MK8 had no cover.
Cut the crap Informer.
Maybe Nintendo declined. Even if they didn’t, GameInformer is a multiplatform publication. They’re going to have more multiplatform games on the cover than anything else for a wider appeal.
They have had several Nintendo covers throughout the years though.
Only several…in years. I can’t even remember seeing on fucking Nintendo-based game cover..ever.
2013 had a special Zelda cover. 2012 had NSMBU. 2011 had a Zelda cover. 2009 had a special Metroid cover, a special Mario cover, one Epic Mickey cover, and one special Zelda cover.
But most covers are for multiplatform games anyway.
http://www.gameinformer.com/mag/covers.aspx
Yeah, Simply G is right. They’ve had plenty. I actually owned the one with the NSMBU cover.
And why have that one when you hated NSMBU?
I got that cover before the Wii U was even released.
And before you hated it whack for every reason that is unjust for Wii U.
I didn’t. I was actually looking forward to it. It’s too similar to NSMBW. That’s why I didn’t even bother getting NSMB2. I bought the game for $60. It isn’t worth that price. It’s nothing amazing. But it isn’t terrible either. Super Mario 3D World deserves that price. Because it’s amazing. NSMBU? Deserved a $30 price. It’s just copy and paste.
Okay. If you knew NSMB2 was a lot familiar, then HTF you didn’t with the same for NSMBU?
I didn’t own a 3DS back then so I didn’t care about that game regardless.
And you just said you knew it’s a copy & paste. HTF did you failed on seeing the same case for Wii U’s game?
Ok, let me explain this to you because you don’t seem to understand it. I played NSMB Wii years ago. Then when the Wii U came out, I thought it would be completely new and stuff with the introduction of Baby Yoshis and whatnot. Then I heard about NSMB2 but I didn’t have a 3DS back then SO I DIDN’T PAY ATTENTION TO IT NOR DID I CARE FOR IT. I was only looking at NSMBU. I didn’t get to play NSMB2 until after I played NSMBU. They’re both copy and paste. The only one I think that actually tries to change anything is New Super Luigi U. It’s challenging and faster. NSMBU is slow and boring. I can never play it for more than a few levels at a time.
Hello? Wii was almost exactly like the DS game but the bosses were replaced by the Koopalings after their long 18 year absence since Super Mario World. The only reason why I bought it was for my siblings as a Christmas present before I left to another state. I knew it was the exact same game but I bought it for the kids since they never played it.
You should’ve saw it coming like I did. I know copy and paste when I see it. CoD since 2007, ALL OF EA’S BS GAMES, NSMB series, 2K’s games, Ubishit’s AC and even all of mobile’s garbage “runners” *cough* SEGA!
If you want to play a FPS, I recommend Bioshock Infinite. (It isn’t on Wii U but play it wherever you can) I actually just beat it a few minutes ago and it’s amazing. I enjoyed the whole story. FPS games rarely ever have stories nowadays. XD
And since when this was turned into an FPS conversation? lol
I will whenever possible but it’s unlikely.
It’s up to Nintendo. If Game Informer asks them all the time and Nintendo themed covers do not happen all the time…
There is kind of only one party to blame. That is, if you really even call it “blaming.”
fuck you stranga. xbox has the BETS excluisves :’D
I’m thinking Nintendo likes to wait for big cover reveals. Nintendo is a company that does things in moderation and doesn’t like to do too much of one thing. They need to spread out the Game Informer covers just like they spread out the releases of 3D Marios, Zeldas, Pokemon games, etc.
Well it seems like every two years starting in 2007 game informer does a legend of Zelda cover so I would probably bet on the next one being zelda themed.
What I have been saying all along….There was not cover for Smash Bros or Bayonetta 2….two high anticipated games….I don’t expect then to do the same with Xenoblade X, Zelda and Star Fox.
No. Trust me. There will be one for Zelda…
there’s no Game Informer in my country, so I couldn’t care less
Magasines are so 1990’s anyway…
As a magazine that always pop up in Nintendo sites even if the game reveal will not include the Wii U or 3DS, it would be interesting to finally see a reveal with a Nintendo IP.
Nintendo Direct or not, the broader the audience the better.
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Splatoon needs to have a cover since its a new Nintendo IP that can use the exposure!
Because the companies making games for the system, or for multiple systems including the Wii U, almost always pull out at the last minute, some for good reasons, others not so good.