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Post by cheat-master30 on Oct 25, 2010 15:43:27 GMT -5
than other official magazines and sources? I mean, there's no modern functional difference in accuracy (both canon and game info related) between Nintendo Power, Official Nintendo Magazine (UK and Australian versions) and Nintendo Dream (the Japanese equivalent).
American centric much online? Heck, if it came down to it, I'd rather trust ONM UK for accurate Nintendo news than Nintendo Power, and all these magazines make a ton of mistakes anyway.
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Post by kingkoopa on Oct 25, 2010 17:29:02 GMT -5
There is no difference between the two. It is just that more people read NP therefore more people will get info from NP and post about on teh internetz
EDIT: Well it isn't really that more people read NP, but more like more people who read NP go on internet forums and such.
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Post by Koopalmier on Oct 25, 2010 18:34:18 GMT -5
Errr... nope. It's simply that the majority of the Mario fanbase is American and don't give a d amn about other countries. Just look at the Super Mario Wiki, where they consider American medias more important than Japanese ones, and where the DiC cartoons are on the same level as the games - if not on a higher level. Also they use the American names for articles when the UK and US names are different (for instance: Koopa Kid / Mini-Bowser).
Those magazines can't be considered as official Nintendo magazines. They are a bunch of people who did their best to get some rights from Nintendo (of America / of Europe / of Japan, depending of the region) so that they could make a magazine strictly about it. Although they do reveal some official informations before NoJ does - for instance, Mario's height and weight were revealed in a preview of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games before Nintendo officially told what is Mario's height, with that real-size statue and all - but it's extremely rare and is not important most of the time.
Oh, and GameFAQs uses Sonic Colours' American (and Japanese) name instead of the European one.
So, yeah, the Internet is American centric. There's the Japanese Internet on which no stranger can access, there's the American Internet, and there's the European Internet which is very small and ignored.
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Post by Koopalmier on Oct 29, 2010 5:16:29 GMT -5
Well, OK then.
Still doesn't answer why is Nintendo Power more trusted than any other Nintendo magazine.
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