N-Gage Debuts New Bundle, Vows Action Against Crackers

Thanks to GameSpot for pointing out that Nokia's N-Gage 'mobile game deck' has effectively descended in price further, since the company "is letting consumers pick three game titles to bundle with the N-Gage for $299, provided they order them at EBGames and GameStop", and "those two stores are offering their own instant rebate of $100", making the N-Gage $199 with 3 games. In other N-Gage news, following the cracking of N-Gage software, a Nokia spokesman indicated they would "aggressively pursue" the perpetrators, as well as those spreading the crack online, and "...noted that future N-Gage releases are more likely to take advantage of platform-specific features that will make cracked games either impossible to play on other Series 60 devices, or at least play with a very poor user experience."

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Re:N-Gage fails from lack of hype.

[gumbysworld]

" Everybody knows what the thing's capabilities are,"

I had no idea until my free monthly STUFF mag showed up and it had a blurb about what it could do.

Nokia even has a nice big color add for it in the mag but no mention of what it can do. Every commercial I have seen just show it and the game splinter cell and thats it. No one knows what this sucker can do unless they look for it.

That is a big big mistake that will hurt them in the end. Screw show casing the game splinter cell and bring up the hype/specs.

It seams they think the funky looks and vauge commercials are enough to make [drive] people into diging up info about it. I never would have looked or known what it can do, if it wasn't for the small blurb in STUFF.

I don't think anyone is gonna look up anything until they give them a better reason. Splinter Cell as the key markting point in all the adds, is not enough to make anyone do anything but go ho hum and ignore the N-Gage.

G