{"id":68886,"date":"2018-12-14T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/its_another_sad_day_for_print_media_as_spains_official_nintendo_magazine_closes_for_good"},"modified":"2018-12-14T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:30:00","slug":"its-another-sad-day-for-print-media-as-spains-official-nintendo-magazine-closes-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/14\/its-another-sad-day-for-print-media-as-spains-official-nintendo-magazine-closes-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Another Sad Day For Print Media As Spain&#8217;s Official Nintendo Magazine Closes For Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/007a168f73845\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/007a168f73845\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Mario\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/007a168f73845\/mario.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/007a168f73845\/mario.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;re sad to report that print gaming media has taken another blow today with the closure of Official Nintendo Magazine in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Just a couple of months ago, UK publications <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/uk_gaming_magazines_gamesmaster_and_gamestm_set_to_close_next_month\">GamesMaster and GamesTM saw their last issues<\/a> appear on store shelves, and this latest casualty comes as a result of similar problems. Publishing house Axel Springer has reportedly blamed a sharp fall in sales for the magazine&#8217;s closure as online media continues to dominate, adding to the financial issues already being experienced by the Spanish division of the company.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine&#8217;s final issue &#8211; number 315 &#8211; is set to launch next week, unsurprisingly focusing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> as its main feature. The publication had been going strong for 26 years until this point.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Onmspain\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0b705909ecb55\/onmspain.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0b705909ecb55\/onmspain.original.jpg\" alt=\"Onmspain\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Other countries, such as the UK and Australia, have also had Official Nintendo Magazine publications in the past. As many of our readers will likely remember, the UK edition also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2014\/10\/official_nintendo_magazine_announces_closure_in_the_uk\">closed back in 2014<\/a> during a particularly tough time for Nintendo media as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, we wish the very best to all those affected by the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re sad to report that print gaming media has taken another blow today with the closure of Official Nintendo Magazine in Spain. Just a couple of months ago, UK publications GamesMaster and GamesTM saw their last issues appear on store shelves, and this latest casualty comes as a result of similar problems. Publishing house Axel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}