N-Gage - Success Claimed, Unofficial Price Drop

Posted by simoniker on Thursday October 23, 2003 @02:16PM from the marvellous-soap-opera dept.

Mirkon writes "After non-specific claims of high sales, Nokia's Ilkka Raiskinen has now stated that the Nokia N-Gage's first two weeks have seen massive success, with sales of over 400,000 units worldwide. Analysts are skeptical, firstly because 400,000 is not an exceptionally great amount, and secondly because the number 'refers to models Nokia has sold to shops and other retail outlets', not the amount sold to consumers." Also, drewqmn writes "I noticed on the GameStop website that they are already selling the N-Gage at $199.99 [GamerFeed has a story on this currently unofficial, store-specific price cut, though there are rumors it may be official soon.] Has any console/platform dropped in price so fast?"

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Re:I tried one out. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-23 15:14 · Score: -1, Flamebait

as an owner of Nokia stock, I must point at that 1) this N-Gage business completely surprised me, I didn't expect this kind of ass product from Nokia and 2) their phones are good, it's just this one stupid product.

Thanks and anybody reading this, please buy 10-15 Nokia phones RIGHT NOW.