UK Retailers Report Disappointing N-Gage Sales

Thanks to GamesIndustry.biz for their article indicating that UK videogame retailers are showing extremely low sell-through of Nokia's new N-Gage game deck in its launch week. Although US sales figures are still pending, "fewer than 500 units [were] sold by the 6,000 [UK] game stores polled by Chart-Track." GI.Biz note that, though "these figures don't include sales from mobile phone stores, which might well be expected to shift a few units of the N-Gage, they still spell out something of a setback for Nokia's ambitions in the console space", since "Nintendo's Game Boy Advance hardware outsold the N-Gage by a ratio of almost 30:1."

Where's the press coverage?

[MattGrounds]

Maybe I don't watch as much TV as some, but where has the press coverage been in the UK? I haven't noticed any signifigant stories in the papers either. It's almost as if they want the thing to die a quiet death so they can sweep it under the carpet and move on.

You do have to wonder why anyone would buy such an ugly piece of kit that has no killer app games, tries to be a phone too (I have a phone already ta) and results in a huge number of horrible buttons.

When instead you could have a shiny silver GBA SP with fantastic games like Pokemon and Advance Tactics and Mario. mmmmmmmmmmm ... Mario