Nokia Declares N-Gage A Failure

chrisbtoo writes "Nokia's VP of corporate strategy has admitted that the company's ill-fated N-Gage was not the success they'd hoped it would be, and they won't develop the platform further. The device sold 2 million units in 3 years, against projections of 6 million. They'll continue to build the gaming software into their Series 60 phones, but gaming won't be a priority for them until 2007." From the article: "The company launched the N-Gage in 2003 but sales have been disappointing and, according to the company's roadmap, mobile gaming will not be a focus until 2007. Nokia is concentrating on mobile music for the rest of this year, and next year's main push will be on driving mobile television."

Comments

Wow

[gcnaddict]

NGage a failure? What a surprise *rolls eyes*

seriously though. It wouldnt have worked even if they tried. No game system is ever supposed to have a screen taller than it is wide, especially in first person shooters. no one's going to snipe you from the top. theyll all use a chainsaw on you from the side!

obligatory

[munehiro]

The best innovation in human usability

http://www.sidetalkin.com/

i guess it's not completely unrelated to the bad results of this cellphone

Nokia Declares Mobile Television A Failure

[awch]

Nokia is concentrating on mobile music for the rest of this year, and next year's main push will be on driving mobile television."

...to be followed by the 2007 Slashdot article titled, "Nokia Declares Mobile Television A Failure."

The sad thing

[Kortec]

The really depressing part about this headline is that it probably took eight or nine senior market analysts a full quarter's worth of work to figure this out, and all they had to do was Ask Slashdot (tm). Ah well; guess they have to make their Christmas bonuses somehow.

HO Gauge is clearly superior.

[ScentCone]

Much more pulling power, anyway, and the little fake trees scale better.