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Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Styx on August 01, 2003, 10:05:26 AM
New N-Gage is coming out next month. I work at EB GAMES and supposed to be pushing sales of this new phone/handheld game console. I was just wonder what everyone\'s take was on it - price, useablity, etc. I personally do not see sales doing all that great. Her is the link for more info, take a look and let me have some opinions.

And no... I\'m not spamming to promote EB :P

http://www.n-gage.com/n-gage/home.html
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: mm on August 02, 2003, 07:18:57 AM
it\'s shit
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Kurt Angle on August 02, 2003, 10:27:30 AM
I heard it was shit too.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Living-In-Clip on August 02, 2003, 11:06:23 AM
Next month? What\'s the retail price? What\'s the lauch games? Where\'s the hype? And who designed such a god-awful device?

:)
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Blade on August 02, 2003, 12:40:25 PM
It\'s not going to hurt the GBA. It costs too much money, and isn\'t focused enough on games.

Case in point, one of the unit\'s biggest criticisms is that the button layout sucks balls. BTW.. Nokia.. would it be so hard to show off game screenshots on your site? I wanna see how good (or bad) Tomb Raider looks..
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: ooseven on August 02, 2003, 01:39:37 PM
N-Gage by Nokia

The 3DO of the handheld world..

and yes i too think its Shit

not even worthy of my usual coment X box of Piss Poor ;).
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Styx on August 02, 2003, 02:52:11 PM
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Originally posted by ooseven
N-Gage by Nokia

The 3DO of the handheld world..

and yes i too think its Shit

not even worthy of my usual coment X box of Piss Poor ;).



Hey now I got a 3DO when they came out ....yes it was a peace of shit. I think N-Gage is shit to, just glad to hear that I\'m not the only one
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: mm on August 02, 2003, 04:31:28 PM
ACTUALLY, 3DO was a nice piece of hardware that got little support
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Blade on August 02, 2003, 04:57:20 PM
I\'ve gotta agree with Mikey here, 3DO was good hardware for its time.. just too expensive and with little support.

In the case of N-Gage, the hardware is a step up from GBA.. but it has too many other flaws to beat out Nintendo\'s handheld. IMO, the GBA-SP won\'t face a challenge until the PSP is available. That is the only true test.

N-Gage compromises ease of play for more features, and is lacking in library. Hell, half of its games are probably going to GBA anyway; Super Monkey Ball is already out, for instance.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Eiksirf on August 02, 2003, 07:58:52 PM
A step up?

My favorite bit of press about the N-Gage so far was from an E3 review where they remarked how holding the unit sideways to your head to talk into the phone parts curiously located where the GBA\'s shoulder buttons are, for example, was like holding a taco to your head.

Where can I sign up...

-Eik
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: ooseven on August 03, 2003, 12:08:11 AM
I was talking about the "FATE" of the 3DO ;)...

Intresting to see if this thing makes it past its first year.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: bigrob on August 06, 2003, 05:00:15 AM
here we go again. Its not shit. I have had one since end of march.  Tell me this is a bad thing: I have 3 southpark episodes, 2 cds (acc format) and a few games on this litle sweetie. I have aslo played some of the games and I think it handles pretty good now. Buggy as hell in the begining. Nokia is making there own game called pathway to glorym whihc is some cool shit. Massive multiplayer online stategy game...
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: bigrob on August 06, 2003, 05:02:16 AM
by the way. worldwide launch is october 7 !
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: ooseven on August 06, 2003, 05:40:32 AM
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Originally posted by bigrob
here we go again. Its not shit. I have had one since end of march.  Tell me this is a bad thing: I have 3 southpark episodes, 2 cds (acc format) and a few games on this litle sweetie. I have aslo played some of the games and I think it handles pretty good now. Buggy as hell in the begining. Nokia is making there own game called pathway to glorym whihc is some cool shit. Massive multiplayer online stategy game...



Whaaaooo and for a fraction of the price you could of got yourself a MP3 phone and GBA SP.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: mm on August 06, 2003, 06:22:36 AM
it\'s shit
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Unicron! on August 06, 2003, 07:37:14 AM
Perhaps we shouldnt judge it as a handheld console for gaming but as a handheld device for multible uses.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: ooseven on August 07, 2003, 01:36:33 AM
Quote
Originally posted by Unicron!
Perhaps we shouldnt judge it as a handheld console for gaming but as a handheld device for multible uses.



Yeah but for a fraction of the price you can get a far superior phone and GBA SP.

Nokia deserves to take a fall for this.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: XxRide R DiexX on August 10, 2003, 02:08:56 PM
I\'m with Unicron on this... Nokia didn\'t come out with the N-gage as a device deisgned solely for gaming... instead, they integrated four  popular devices into one... a phone, a gaming device, an mp3 player, and a pda. And yes, you can buy all of those items separately for about the same price ( if, of course, you cheap out on the mp3 player and pda... ) but that isn\'t the point...

the whole point of combining elements is to make it more convenient, and in my opinion, in so much as I pre-ordered one despite the hype, Nokia has succeeded at just doing that.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: mm on August 10, 2003, 02:40:02 PM
im sorry you bought one

its not too late to cancell
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: XxRide R DiexX on August 10, 2003, 07:37:06 PM
I\'m happy I bought one; and I\'ll enjoy it just to spite you MM.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: mm on August 11, 2003, 01:24:11 AM
hey, it\'s yer money

might as well go out and buy some crack too
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: ooseven on August 11, 2003, 01:32:03 AM
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Originally posted by XxRide R DiexX
I\'m happy I bought one; and I\'ll enjoy it just to spite you MM.


What and you couldn\'t of just got a far superior phone plus a GBA + games for a fraction of the price.

God :eek: you must have more money than sense.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Living-In-Clip on August 11, 2003, 10:12:16 PM
Excuse me, while you guy\'s talk about a "step up" I want to point a few things out.



That said - I will buy one, once they are discountined...For my collection, of course.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Blade on August 12, 2003, 02:03:39 PM
The internal hardware appears to be a step up. Fully-polygonal Tomb Raider isn\'t apparently possible on GBA.
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: JP on November 11, 2003, 09:40:28 AM
hmm interesting this one:

http://spong.com/index.asp?art=5781

Looks like it\'s over and out for the N-Gage. Buh-bye...
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: mm on November 11, 2003, 11:42:38 AM
bwuahaha!

anyone who bought ngage = complete fool
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on November 11, 2003, 04:31:02 PM
I.. bought the N-Gage.. :(
Title: N-Gage by Nokia
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on November 11, 2003, 06:49:34 PM
Ok, I lied.