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Sega + Nokia = True
bdsgeekboys writes "Another press release from Nokia entitled "Nokia and Sega to take gamers to a new level of mobile interactive gaming" has been released today. This means that Sega and Nokia has joined forces to provide branded games for the Nokia's new mobile game deck device category. You can read the full press release and view an image of the Nokia N-Gage(TM) mobile game deck."
How long until they come out with a new Nokia phone with Sonic the Hedgehog?! I've abstained from buying a cell phone for years, but a cell phone with Sonic might break me!
Maybe they will create a phone that has videoke capabilities next..
Does this mean I can play Phantasy Star Online from my cell phone?
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I was going to submit this to /. when Sega put it up, but figured there wouldn't be much interest. It fits well with this story though: mobile.sega.com
If Sega + Nokia = True then assuming + represents the OR operation,
either Sega = True and Nokia = Fales
or Nokia = True and Sega = False
Sega = True and Nokia = True
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People spend enough time hiding away in there mobiles... and the only game I know of that people really bother playing is snake.. whos gonna wanna play sonic the hedgehog on the keypad of a mobile phone? no-one for two long I bet.
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Did you mean:
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if(true == (Nokia + Sega))
Any decent compiler would have easily caught this Jr. league programming error.
I don't know about you, but this just looks way too much like a Gameboy (TM) to carry around and use like a regular cell phone.
Plus, I think that dialing a number with one hand (typical of cell users) would be a little awkward given the phones shape.
And more importantly, how will you make the decision: kill Dr. Robotnic, or answer this incoming call?
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So, will cheat codes now give us extra lives and extra calling time?
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Just what we need. I guess it's not enough that all the soccer moms of the world mow down people like blades of grass as they drive while inattentively yapping on their cellphones, now we'll have to deal with their spawn trying to talk, drive and play Snake in 640x480x32bit res..
Why not just let cellphones be cellphones instead of swiss army knives full of useless doodads?
Now Ericsson better team up with Nintendo and Motorola has to seek help from Microsoft.
What's next? The mobile phone manufacturers teaming up with the movie and/or music industry?
Another obtuse "handheld" "easy-to-use" device that is supposed to provide me quality entertainment.
And a 10 fold increase in road rage!
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I hope the new phone is more stable than Nokia's other Series 60 offering, the 7650. The kids'll really love when their game goes tits-up every other level.
Maybe they were attemtping a mathematical rather than logic statement. Its funny:
Sega - True = Nokia
Its not quite as funny though as the sign put up in my dorm.
"Diversity - ignorence = civility + respect"
Obviously this was created by Liberal Arts majors as it lacks a basic understanding of algebra, and placed on the Engineering special intrest floor. A comments under the sign was quickly added:
Diversity = civility + respect + ignorence
(btw the Liberal Arts thing was joke, no offense please : )
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How about "...Sega and Nokia HAVE joined forces..."? Bloody illiterates.
Could this FINALLY spell the end of the gameboy? Nokia has , especially in Europe, and together with Sega's talent for software, who knows???
Are these games you can purchase and then play without using minutes? If the games are cheap enough I can see a market, cell-arcades. The advantage to Nokia/Sega, more people want Nokia cell-phones/plans. Multiplayer games will also give Nokia the added benefit of minute usage.
I have an old cell phone with no games whatsoever. Anyone had experience with the newer games like Monkey Ball? I know customers initially had to download Monkey Ball for US $3.99 and where given 30 days of play.
I wouldn't play these games unless I could buy them for a one-time fee and play them as much as I want.
The phone itself looks good for games with the D-pad, and I'm assuming you use the number pad for the button controls. This will probably be good for games like Super Monkey Ball and the like.
But...I still want something more.
I personally wouldn't mind a Gameboy Advance phone (with a backlight, damn it). This would be great for games like Pokemon, or a multiplayer version of Final Fantasy Tactics, Advance Wars, or other cool games - or even more staple style, like Hearts/Chess/Checkers, etc. Add a Gamespy/Battlenet style "find an opponent" feature, and you can have conviencience and online gaming - and if they get voice *and* data to work, you can talk to your opponent while you play.
Granted, I'm not a big fan of "online games for online gaming sake" (I hate most MMRPG's), but this would a) drive up them minutes for the phone company, and b) could actually be kind of fun depending on how they did it.
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Obviously, this will need some confirming, but as Sega have already released versions of Sega, NiGHTS and Chu Chu Rocket for mobile phone platforms in Japan, I'm assuming we'll get those for this; if we do, I suppose I can kiss my job goodbye: online Chu Chu Rocket from my desk? Productivity doesn't stand a chance.
Well...now the Sprint cell phone commericial that I saw with Sega's Super Monkey Ball makes sense. I can't wait to get this. I need more games to ignore my work with!
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Having developed a number of J2ME games for mobile phones, I find myself frustrated at companies such as Nokia, Siemens and co breaking standards to force developers to release separate versions of software for each manufacturer/device. This is no doubt holding up development of games and other useful apps for the mobile devices, and I'm sure that there's a case to be made against many of these manufacturers claiming to have J2ME compliancy.
I realise there's often a need for additional classes for features specific to a phone (vibration, backlights etc), but there are inexplicable deviations. For instance, the Siemens M50 has a rather "unusual" approach to creating an image object from a PNG file. Due to the limitations on file size and download speed, games tend to store all graphics in binary format, or more frequently all on a single PNG canvas - to be masked/chopped up as required. This is fine and works great, but Siemens decided that every external image should be resized to the phone's display - which kind of screws everything up. But wait, you can actually use their custom createImage method to emulate the standard method! Of course, this means it won't work on any other device though...
Nokia are as bad - the 3410 has a bug that means image clipping is 1 pixel out in each axis compared to other phones, so that's another "special" version. The list is huge, and totally defeats the purpose of using Java in the first place. "Run anywhere" is not the case here...
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I wonder why Nintendo isn't playing a better role in mobiles...
Gameboy seems to be the smallest, cheapest and most portable in the gaming sector.
But I din't hear anything about a Gameboy-cmpatible mobile phone... Why?
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Sony and Nokia have joined forces, not has.
Geek 1: My cell phones so old, it only gets 50 fps in Doom 3.
Geek 2: Yeah well mine's so old, it can only hold 5 hours of MP3s
Geek 3: Well mine's so old, it only has a 300MHz processor
Geek 4: Well MY cell phone is SOOOOOO old I can actually call people on it!
Geeks 1-3: Woah, dude that's old
So what we have here is a combination game system/mobile phone, which will stay constantly connected to the network and constantly within reach of the player, and which is now having games for it developed by the makers of one of the prime RPG consoles... ...Phantasy Star Mobile, anyone?
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Instead of getting bored and deciding to bust out some kung-fu, you can rely on your trusty nokia for all your boredom-killing needs.
My cell phone isn't even that small and I'm always hitting the wrong button. I can't imagine trying to play a video game on it.
Nokia might have better luck marketing this product to miniature people like the Borrowers and the Littles...
Finally! Sega found someone with a crappy enough platform to play their games. Maybe the tiny screen, tinny speaker and pushbutton UI will make their games really shine!
they're just hooked on Java. Overloading the plus operator seems to be a very popular thing nowadays...
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Actually, Cingular was running trivia contests and announcements (read: ads) to their subscribers over their phones running up to the release of Spider-Man this summer. It was opt in, but a vision of what's to come.
I'm a one handed dialing fan. The 6800 seems much better for the job. Folding keyboard, and (I think) a little bit bigger screen.
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Compared to Game Boy Advance, N-Gage's screen is too small and it has too many buttons. It's true that the controllers for PS2, Xbox and Gamecube have nearly this many buttons, but most games use only half of them. A better design for a mobile game/video phone or would be a few buttons along the side and a touchscreen covering most of the front surface that would disable during calls so you could hold it against your face.
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of THESE!!!
I always love to pay more and get less too! And here I thought I was the only one. Why pay 100 for a gameboy advance when I can pay a few hundred for something to do a shitty version of the same job?
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So long as it doesn't pretend to be winshit compatible when it really only runs Linux.
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If I cant spelle ignerence, does that meen god woolnt love me?
Well i'm happy that someone has realised that the Atari Jaguar controllers rocked and would make a great phone :)
But what will suck is if you're trapped in a burning building / hostage situation and you dial 9-1-1 for help only to find you activated a secret konami code and you got a few extra 1-up's:)
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With this comes DRM to your cell phone. Copyright will extend its ugly head into this. You should realize this.
Will Nokia get into the Model Train business anytime soon? Or could there be ulterior motives - like a trademark lawsuite... :-)
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No Sony and Ericcson HAVE joined forces.
SEGA and Nokia have ALSO joined forced.
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Like computers should only be used for computing, and not for stupid shit like writing messages to Internet...
Things change, man. Today, you're carrying your mobile, you have CD player with you and you are playing with your GAB in the train. Tomorrow, who knows what - maybe they are in one device?
Cheers,
S.
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