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Nokia Declares N-Gage A Failure

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. tsk tsk. by daddyrief · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A cell phone should't try to do a portable console's job.

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  2. Casual games by core · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wish they had made it easy for casual games developers like us to port or develop titles. Instead they had to behave like they were Sony and have us sign our life away before we even could evaluate the potential. Oh well. At least the xbox 360 is getting that part right.

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    Emmanuel

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  3. WHAT? by ankit_shankar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But I love tacos!