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Offline Styx
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« 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
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« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2003, 07:18:57 AM »
it\'s shit
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« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2003, 10:27:30 AM »
I heard it was shit too.
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« Reply #3 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?

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« Reply #4 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..
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« Reply #5 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 ;).
« Last Edit: August 02, 2003, 01:40:52 PM by ooseven »
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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2003, 02:52:11 PM »
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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
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« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2003, 04:31:28 PM »
ACTUALLY, 3DO was a nice piece of hardware that got little support
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« Reply #8 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.
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« Reply #9 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...

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« Reply #10 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.
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« Reply #11 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...
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« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2003, 05:02:16 AM »
by the way. worldwide launch is october 7 !
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« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2003, 05:40:32 AM »
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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.
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« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2003, 06:22:36 AM »
it\'s shit
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