Back in the day, Nintendo Power was like the bible for me. I loved the day that shit came in the mail. I had all of them, strategy guides you got for subscribing, special edition issues, all of them. Then I moved, and lost a large part of my collection. I did find the old nintendo power trading cards a few months ago though in a shoe box.
Thing about it though was, as I got older, I had transitions in game magazines. Game Players was a great mag until it died out, and when the n64 came around, I lost all interest in anything Nintendo related. So NP pretty much was dead to me up till a couple years ago, when I got a free subscription from Game Crazy. Reading it now is just a reminder of the greatness that they lost. Its no where near interesting anymore. A bland magazine. So maybe its best for them to bow out and call it a day.