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."

Comments

Re:Games!

[kaworu-sama]

I've kept clean from the evils of phones, but now with text messaging and Sonic, I might get one ;)

Also a multiplayer Sonic game could be fun. Maybe you could have an arena type game or something, but I'm sure anything Sonic like this could be fun.

oh great..

[joshua404]

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?

Re:oh great..

[Anonymous Coward]

"Why not just let cellphones be cellphones instead of swiss army knives full of useless doodads?"

Because I don't want to carry around a phone, a PDA, a Gameboy, a camera and a dictaphone when I can just grab this one handy device that does it all. If you're so certain you don't need any of those features stick to your old phone, just don't whine so much about it.

UH OH... car accidents go up 90%

[Jonny Balls]

And a 10 fold increase in road rage!

The End of the Gameboy?

[otisaardvark]

Could this FINALLY spell the end of the gameboy? Nokia has , especially in Europe, and together with Sega's talent for software, who knows???

Good news - but I want better

[Dark Paladin]

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.

Super Monkey Ball :)

[GweeDo]

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!