Nokia gloomy about N-Gage

[Deepak]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051102/tc_nm/nokia_n_gage_dc

BARCELONA (Reuters) - The world's biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia, said on Wednesday it is unhappy with the sales of its N-Gage gaming device and will bring the games to other phones to get enough scale.

Nokia offered N-Gage to consumers in 2002, in a portable gaming market which was then dominated by the GameBoy from Nintendo (7974.OS) of Japan, vowing to sell 6 million units in the first three years. It only managed to sell 2 million.
"I am not happy. I said we needed to sell six million in three years, and we sold one-third of that. We need to make some changes," said Anssi Vanjoki, head of Nokia's Multimedia division, which produces N-Gage.

 

[jvd]

Its a smart move . Put ngage video chips inside all thier phones and they can sell the games to more people .

Ngage 2 should go this root from the get go . Have a gaming phone and then still offer it in other phones from the start

 

[darkblu]

jvd, the original ngage was a vanilla nokia series60 - no specialized video hw whatsoever. that's why nokia can actually 'release' the ngage library across their series60 and up devices as long as those have some cart media.