Hmm, makes sense. They nearly (insert sarcasm) grabbed the handheld market last time. I wonder if the shareholders are aware of this announcement. :smt082 ^_^_^
The last time I was in a Gamestop near my house, they still had the whole demo display, games and accessories for sale. Everything was still full price too, no markdowns what so ever. ^_^_^
Gamestop recently marked all the Ngage stuff to 50% off and only carries the prepaid Cingular Ngages. There were no accessories either.
We stopped carrying N-Gage consoles and games back in early 2004, after only 2 people bought the systems and only 10 games were sold. That was out of nearly 30 systems and 100 games still in stock. Yeah, we lost a little bit because of Nokia...
i didnt know cell phone companies made as much as microsoft to keep wasting money on hardware just to say theyre in the market.
It actually looks quite snazzy. One to buy once it fails i think One advantage it may well have however, is that the latest version of series 60 supports resolutions other than whatever the standard one is, so it could theoretically have a decent aspect ratio screen, which would eliminate one big problem with the first. Although that would probably break backward compatibility
Will the marketing department shoot itself in the foot by insulting their target market, then trying for a market that isn't interested, and then making another set of subpar games (mostly because of the screen. Some are impressive), on a subpar phone? And more importantly: Is sidetalking back?
That's the spirit! Hell, even I'm sort of interested to see how the Gizmondo pans out (EB is carrying the system in the US...check their site) and I'm one of the few who did see potential with the first N-Gage. What does surprise me a bit is seeing how this will be yet another standalone unit. I figured they'd have attempted to stick the technology into as many Nokia-branded phones as possible for more widespread market penetration.
Exactly the problem. They should make it "N-Gage 2 technology inside" type of deal for all of their phones, instead of an actual unit.
Perhaps that will come later on. I suspect only the higher-end phones would incorporate that technology anyway due to costs and added hardware.
I don't get why your're so negative about n-gage. Yeah, it's a bit crappy if you look at it as only gaming device. But it's a cheap S60 smartphone, with many great apps for it, and if you want to play games - well, I prefer a normal joypad to this thing on most phones
