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N-Gage Hardware and Software Price Dropped 36
GamesIndustry.biz has the news that Nokia is dropping the price on N-Gage Hardware and Software. They also reconfirmed the thought that the deck may recieve another redesign. From the article: "Despite putting significant weight behind the launch of the original device, and responding quickly to consumer feedback by launching the much-improved N-Gage QD handset within a matter of months, Nokia has had very limited success with N-Gage - selling only 1.5 million units of the platform worldwide to date."
Development SDK (Score:2)
Re:Development SDK (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Development SDK (Score:1)
Oh, and the basic development tools are all free, can you say the same about GBA, PSP, etc?
A great phone (esp for the $) and OK game platform (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:A great phone (esp for the $) and OK game platf (Score:2)
Re:A great phone (esp for the $) and OK game platf (Score:2)
Re:A great phone (esp for the $) and OK game platf (Score:2)
My original question stands, though, of whether there's any technological or business reason that N-Gage, 3660, et al. only use MMC.
Re:A great phone (esp for the $) and OK game platf (Score:1)
Nokia's time to take notes (Score:2, Insightful)
This possible redesign should be a product overhaul. It's not as if they can turn a blind eye to customer response to the problems with the current product and expect to succeed.
Their competition has increased, and there are a total of four major handhelds fighting for market share, GBASP, DS, NGage, and the PSP which has yet to arrive but isn't far off.
Re:Nokia's time to take notes (Score:2)
The actual problem is that the range of games suck and the marketing sucks worse. The device itself is brilliant.
Re:Nokia's time to take notes (Score:1)
They're mucking around with a now outdated product that is only getting older. Maybe as a phone it'll do some business- with boosted gaming performance compared to other mobile phones- but it can never claim to be a true compet
Not a price issue (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Not a price issue (Score:1)
So...why don't you buy one? Can't you just get it in a cellphone store?
Good move (Score:5, Insightful)
The N-Gage has been written off as a failure by most gamers since before its release, but Nokia is still pushing it, still supporting it with new titles and redesigns.
This kind of faith in a product is a bit unusual, but refreshing. They're still trying to make it work, and while general opinion doesn't match mine, there's still no guarantee that it won't catch on eventually.
If Nokia decides to remain in the gaming industry after the N-Gage is gone, I see potential for great things. After all, if you try this many times, you'll be bound to strike gold eventually. :)
Good news! (Score:2, Insightful)
Meh. (Score:1, Troll)
Re:Meh. (Score:1)
Sheep!
Re:Meh. (Score:1)
price drop???? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:price drop???? (Score:1)
Sucks for Less? (Score:1, Funny)
Isn't that like... (Score:2)
Isn't that like polishing a turd?
Yeah, real speedy.. (Score:2)
Considering that most of those complaints were lodged well before the system was actually released, I'm not sure if the "quickly" adverb applies here. Complaints about the location of the cartridge slot and good ol' side-talking were made before the unit ever went into serious production, and yet they went ahead anyway.
Gerard (Score:2, Funny)
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n-gage vs psp? (Score:1)