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The Future of the N-Gage

Posted by Zonk on from the future's-so-bright-it-has-to-be-pr dept.

Gamasutra has a talk with Jani Karlsson, senior manager for the N-Gage at Nokia. He talks about how Nokia sees the N-Gage, and what they plan to do with the little engine that could've in the near future. Sort of. Kinda. From the article: "GS: So the new handsets which are coming out with the N-Gage technology inside. What's the visibility of the brand of N-Gage within those? JK: I really can't comment on that because I'd be stepping on other peoples turf. Every single product that Nokia has a strong individual marketing message to it. The power to decide the visibility or non-visibility of any brand, external or internal, is really down to individual brand departments. GS: So... you can talk about the future of N-Gage? JK: Sure - that's all about expansion, into the smartphone areas."

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  1. Vapid by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 2, Funny

    I predict the N-Gage's future, much like this comments page, will be devoid of any real content.

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  2. What we really want by Tidor · · Score: 2, Funny

    The N-Gage is dead to me until they bring back sidetalking How could they get rid of such a great feature?

  3. N Gauge by Stargoat · · Score: 4, Funny

    N Gauge is fine for making a small layout seem large, but I find it difficult to obtain the exact locomotives and cars that I want. This is odd, because N Gauge is rather popular in Europe and Japan. Of course, most Europeans and Japanese are probably not interested in recreating a cornbelt railroad. As a result, I would recommend most layout operators use HO, but N Gauge is not going anywhere.

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    1. Re:N Gauge by paedobear · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nokia don't seem to sell in Japan (ran adverts a few years ago, but nothing seemed to come of it) and their popularity has been in freefall in Europe for a while - even then, noone wanted an N-Gage.

    2. Re:N Gauge by ThePiMan2003 · · Score: 2, Funny

      *Woosh* someone here never played with model railroads.

    3. Re:N Gauge by deadgoon42 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I model in N-Guage and if you've been away from the hobby for a while, you'd be surprised at the quality and detail off the new N-Guage models. Atlas and Kato put out some real quality locomotives with lots of detail, and Micro-Train's rolling stock can't be beat. I've never heard of this Nokia brand though, are they European? If so, do they put out models in British N-Guage (1:148) or American N-Guage (1:160)?

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  4. I do believe... by cthellis · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...it is against grammatical rules to put "future" and. "N-Gage in the same sentence."

    1. Re:I do believe... by Stephen+Gilbert · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...it is against grammatical rules to put "future" and. "N-Gage in the same sentence.

      True, but there are always exceptions to the rule. In this case, the sentence is fine if the word "no" precedes "future". Grammar is tricky like that.