Stop Laughing At The N-Gage, Dammit! - Gizmodo Comments

Stop Laughing At The N-Gage, Dammit!

geedeck — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:36:50 EDT

There actually were some decent games, when they were leveraging the platform correctly. Pocket Kingdoms, Rifts, some WW2 turn-based game, some decent stuff. Even the Tony Hawk game was well executed. And you don't even need to try and market the S60 as a gaming phone... They'll just sell them anyway, and then you have a crazy big installed base. All it would take it one killer app (Spore?) and bam, gaming platform with leverage.

geedeck

Stop Laughing At The N-Gage, Dammit!

SexyNinjaMonkey — Wed, 17 May 2006 02:02:49 EDT

Don't knock it, N-gage is and was one of the best phones on the market. If only they'd taken the mp3 player from the n-gage and the hot swap card slot from the QD and used them both they would have had an awesome phone. Honestly, i actually pick up my friends phones sidetalker style it's just so easy to get used to (and hard to break out of). I've still got my original N-gage in my pocket as i type this (you know you want it). C'mon good multiplayer games on the bus what more could you want. If they released a newer model, i'd probably replace mine with it. 2 years after getting it and it is only just starting to get old.

SexyNinjaMonkey

Stop Laughing At The N-Gage, Dammit!

Muskrat — Tue, 16 May 2006 23:51:31 EDT

Go home taco phone! Nobody lurrrvs youuuu!!!

Muskrat

Stop Laughing At The N-Gage, Dammit!

Satorical — Tue, 16 May 2006 22:59:53 EDT

No one is saying that the NGage wasn't a valuable life lesson for Nokia. We're saying it sucked.

Satorical

Stop Laughing At The N-Gage, Dammit!

Sockatume — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:43:52 EDT

Even more importantly, how many people are going to buy games for their phones?

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Stop Laughing At The N-Gage, Dammit!

TheZodiac — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:12:22 EDT

The question is, how many people are going to buy the "phones" (nokia hates that word) for playing games? As it is, the games on the ngage werent that spectacular to begin with - were they? now - who remembers the crack for s60 sets to play those bgage games? IF nokia dosnt step up performance wise, no one is going to give a crap about their gaming platform. UNLESS - they transform their nextGEN N770 into something more robust graphics and CPU wise. THAT I can see being pulled off, considering its a Linux platform device.

TheZodiac