Nokia Declares N-Gage A Failure

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 25, 2005 @07:30AM from the not-a-very-good-platform dept.

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."

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Re:Not worth the hype by Anonymous Coward · 2005-11-25 08:01 · Score: 0, Informative

"u" do realize that there's a Y and an O in "you"?
Re:Am I the first to wonder... by macpeep · 2005-11-25 09:17 · Score: 2, Informative

You might wonder that, but you'd be wrong. Mobile gaming is HUGELY popular and as the devices get more and more capable, 3D graphics is becoming main stream and viable, revenues are sky-rocketing, the future is looking brighter than ever for mobile gaming!

You can find tons of stuff about it with a bit of Googling, but here's some reading to get you started:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/09/mobile_gam ing_analysis/

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