10-15-2003, 06:06 PM
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"Dismal First Week for N-Gage, say Games Retailers" - The Register
"Figures from videogame retailers around the UK are showing an extremely low sell-through of Nokia's new N-Gage game deck in its launch week, with fewer than 500 units sold by the 6000 game stores polled by Chart-Track. Although these figures don't include sales from mobile phone stores, which might well be expected to shift a few units of the N-Gage, they still mark something of a setback for Nokia's ambitions in the console space. By way of comparison, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance hardware outsold the N-Gage by a ratio of almost 30:1 last week, despite the fact that no key titles launched on the GBA over the course of the week, and that the system is long overdue a price cut."
I got a chance to play with an N-Gage or two at the recent Mobius event, and it was quite impressive from a graphics point of view - the games looked great, very smooth frames rates on Tomb Raider. The fact that you had to take off the back cover and remove the battery just to change the memory card (which is where the game is located) is quite silly though, as is the fact that you can't copy the games off the ROM MMC card onto a larger MMC card and carry multiple games with you - Nokia is literally forcing people into a cartridge-based system. Still, it looked to me like a well executed device. So the question is, why aren't more people buying them? Is the market not ready? Is it price?
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