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Nokia admits to disappointing N-Gage sales

Rob Fahey 15:40 23/02/2004

Jorma Ollila admits that sales of Nokia's game deck aren't what they might be

Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has given the first official indication that sales of the N-Gage game deck are not living up to expectations, but says that the platform must be given until November 2005 to prove itself.

"The sales are in the lower quartile of the bracket we had as our goal," said Nokia chairman and CEO Jorma Ollila, speaking to the Financial Times - the first time that the company has admitted that sales of the device have been lower than expected.

However, Ollila says that the N-Gage has to be given until November 2005 - two years after its launch in autumn 2003 - before the success or failure of the platform can be judged properly.

It's expected that at least one new version of the N-Gage hardware will be introduced before that date - possibly as early as next Autumn - although the platform will remain backwards compatible throughout.

The announcement comes after months of speculation over the actual performance of the N-Gage at retail. Nokia has refused to give sales figures for the device - only shipment figures of 600,000 units have been announced - and as most videogame market research firms target game stores only, not mobile phone retailers, accurate sales figures have been impossible to estimate.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page....me=new&aid=3008

.::: So now that they finally realise it's dissapointing what are they going to do about it? Better yet, what should they change (apart from the game-loading mechanism of course)?

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The game-changing thing definitely.

And maybe some sort of built in camera. I know it adds focus to the phone-capabilities (when it's supposedly mainly a games console), but I've got an N-Gage, and the only thing it lacks, that current phones have is a camera.

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The game-changing thing definitely.

And maybe some sort of built in camera. I know it adds focus to the phone-capabilities (when it's supposedly mainly a games console), but I've got an N-Gage, and the only thing it lacks, that current phones have is a camera.

*snigger*

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make it look like a gba-sp, so twats on here might give it a chance

the only reason it isn't given a chance it because quite frankly its shit, so many problems with it. Do you want this to turn into alist thread on how many thing are wrong with it? No? then shut your mouth! :P

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Sega Kid? Look like a GBA SP?

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GAMES

How to fix the N-Gage:

Turn the screen the other way and make it bigger

Make it so the buttons are usable

Make it so I can replace the games without turning the fucker off and dismantling it

Release more than 7 games this year

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ITS NOT JUST ABOUT THE GAMES!

the n-gage is a nice little device that does plenty more than just play games! it really is not shit like u like to tell everyone! hell, even rllmuk himself has one!

:P

Who cares if Rob himself has one, he aint a god...not yet anyways, the ngage is nice but it does have faults and nokia know that, same way nintendo released the GBASP due to the originals faults.

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It should look like a bog standard phone, then you'd pull bits out and swivel them and stuff and it'd look like a GBA-SP afterwards.

That's right, a transformer phone -- you heard it here first :P.

I would definitely buy a phone that had pullable swivelable bits. Count me in for n-gage: ranting edition.

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The game-changing thing definitely.

And maybe some sort of built in camera. I know it adds focus to the phone-capabilities (when it's supposedly mainly a games console), but I've got an N-Gage, and the only thing it lacks, that current phones have is a camera.

Why can't a phone just be a phone anymore?

:unsure:

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Why can't a phone just be a phone anymore?

:unsure:

.::: Tell me about it, my ringtone is currently an old actual phone sound (SonyEricsson T610) instead of one of those horrible tunes. The only truly novelty thing I use on it is SMS. The camera, games and WAP functionality go largely untouched.

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