N-Gage - Branding, Image, Follow-Up Possibilities

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday March 9, 2004 @07:06PM from the not-entirely-flameworthy dept.

Thanks to Costik.com for its in-depth discussion of the Nokia N-Gage's advantages and disadvantages, a post sparked by Scott Miller's weblog post on the same subject, in which the 3D Realms founder argues "Nokia means cell phones to consumers. So, when Nokia jumps into the games market, it doesn't make sense to people", and concludes: "Nokia needs to create a separate company to handle the N-Gage. The 'Nokia' name should never be associated with this device, much like the Toyota name is not associated with Lexus." Greg Costikyan's reply counters: "Launching N-Gage as a Nokia device wasn't a bad idea; the flaws of the device were, however", and ends: "I personally would not be surprised if, two or three years from now, Nokia decides to give it another go, with a new device."

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Re:My Suggestion... by NanoGator · 2004-03-09 23:16 · Score: -1, Flamebait

"Except for the GBAs"

GBA can barely play a watered down port of DOOM.

GP32? Okay, I grant you that. I didn't think about it since it's not very main stream, but yes, you're right.

PDAs? Eh. I was thinking about game machines here. They can do some okay 3D stuff, though. So yeah, you're right there.

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