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N-Gage No Longer Relevant

Posted by Zonk on from the what-if-they-threw-a-console-and-no-one-came? dept.

Spong.com (via Kotaku) has a story discussing a dire portent for the N-Gage. The Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association sales charts will no longer reflect N-Gage sales. From the article: "The N-Gage chart, though still produced, is of little interest to anyone. Sales of the machine and its software have failed to make any impact on the market at all. We still keep sales charted and are available on monthly, quarterly and annual reports, though we have dropped the platform from the ELSPA chart following a lack of interest."

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  1. Premature post-mortem? by Lindsay+Lohan · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Sales of the machine and its software have failed to make any impact on the market at all.
    I'd heard that a new version of the N-Gage hardware will be introduced before Nov. 2005 - possibly as early as September - although the platform will remain backwards compatible throughout. Although they will admit to slow sales, sounds like Nokia is not quite ready to judge the N-Gage as a success or failure.

    I remember the same fatal pronouncements for Windows CE... four years ago.

    Then again, N-Gage really could be a dying platform.
  2. The truth hurts I guess... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    ...but "No Longer" suggests they once were.

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    Trolling is a art,
  3. This is all because... by aznxk3vi17 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they took out sidetalking.

    I mean, COME ON! That was the best feature!

  4. An interesting story by The_Whole_Fn_Show · · Score: 5, Funny

    My brother was telling me about a friend of his that works for GameStop (in the Cleveland, OH area).

    Apparently, they were the leading store of N-Gages sold, with 1. It caught some guy's eye as he was walking out of the store, so he decided he'd buy it on a whim. That guy returned it a week later.

    So, with one returned unit, that store still had the most N-Gage sales in the Cleveland area.