N-Gage QD - Nokia's Answer To The Critics?

JayBonci writes "According to CNET News, Nokia is preparing the N-Gage QD for release at the end of June. The redesign is an attempt to address design criticisms; such as 'side-talking' and the need to take out the battery to replace the game. Will this signal new life for the console, or is it too little, too late?" We linked to leaked pictures of the N-Gage follow-up late last week on Slashdot Games, and there's further information at GameSpot, which mentions: "When bundled with a service contract, the QD is expected to sell for $99. Without subsidy from a service provider, the phone will go for $199 (with the platform's Tony Hawk title bundled in at that price)."

QD

[Slashdot Hivemind]

Quiet Death

Not with a bang but a whimper etc etc

Good Ideas 101

[PretzelBat]

The NGage has "been redesigned for more comfortable use as a cell phone."

Wait!--they are going to make their cell phone/game system a functional phone? What a great idea.

Oh--they're also going to make it usable as a gaming device? You don't even have to take out the battery to change games anymore?

This thing is going to be awesome.

I bet someone in R&D is getting a big bonus for these ideas.

Dudes! They can't take away my sidetalkin'!

[teamhasnoi]

I mean, I'm like totally sidetalkin' [sidetalkin.com], and this bums me out.

Hmm.

[JanusFury]

The redesign is an attempt to address design criticisms

So they taped a gameboy advance to the front? Well, it sounds a little bulky, but it'll probably do the job.

Re:Good Ideas 101

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet someone in R&D is getting a big bonus for these ideas.

Stop blowing your own trumpet.

Re:formula for disaster

[FrYGuY101]

Don't be so harsh on the NGAGE man! It combines the Video Gaming possibilities of an ordinary phone with the reception and sound quality of a 1980's Gameboy! I hear it's like talking into a taco!

Re:formula for disaster

[Lord Kano]

I hear it's like talking into a taco!

Women listen best when you talk "into the taco".

Trust me.

LK

Games? That's not what color screens are for...

[Anonymous Coward]

We need good mobile device with color screens to look at something else [steamymobile.com].

N-gage Reviews

[PatJensen]

So I went looking for reviews of the new N-gage QD - of which they are none. But I wandered over to Amazon and noticed the usual pre-teen idiots, babbling in all lowercase and using half of the alphabet on how cool it was going to be BEFORE it was released - like every other Amazon video game review.

Does that bother anyone else or is it just me? Everytime I go to Amazon and read those stupid 11 year-old video game reviews I get turned off and remember why I don't shop there. The stupid reviews make my skin crawl. Speaking of which, the 1st gen N-gage should go for pretty cheap on eBay when the new ones come out.

Just a pet peeve of mine. Why go for reviews when I can read what the educated Slashdot community has to say!

-Pat

Finally!

[ooPo]

Now we can get to complaining about the real meat of the Ngage: Boy do those games SUCK!

Re:misunderstandings

[Kizzle]

Take the enter key off of your keyboard. Throw it away.

Re:formula for disaster

[Anonymous Coward]

Women listen best when you talk "into the taco".

Unless you piss them off and then it's like "talk to the hand coz the taco ain't listening".

Re:Too little, far too late

[Ayaress]

They could go for another year or two and finally perfect the technology but Nintendo is known for success late in the game, and doing it cheaply.

Yeah, but when you're competing with Nokia, you don't have to worry about price very much. If you keep it under the $500 mark, you're pretty much going to win, even if you're just selling real tacos.