http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/What Nokia is doing here is they are making Ovi store a one-stop shop for everything including games.
So Games will still be available in future, but now any developer can develop games for Nokia phones, and those games won't require only N-series devices or selected capable devices to run N-gage.

This will widen the audience that developers can cater to for their games.
So again, this is a good move, considering there will be high end and fast phones coming in future from Nokia.
Again hands down to Engadget for not mentioning clearly in their article, but if you hit the link of pocketlint, you can see that the exact message in Nokia's words.]]>Oct 30th 2009 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 31st 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/
Shows what I know.]]>Oct 30th 2009 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Also without selling any subsidized N-Series phones in the US, not many us would know about it, but in Europe it had a decent following

It was a good idea this time around, the games if you look were pretty decent, many on par with what's on the iPhone (some of the first 3D iPhone games ports of N-Gage titles) and the N-series phones actually have buttons and d-pads

The problem was missing key markets like the US, and not making it more open similar to how iPhone is for indie developers, you kinda had to a company like EA or Gameloft to get in there, and then just generally not making as well known and advertised as the App Store, it was mostly upto the developers to get ads out for their games]]>Oct 30th 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/
Oh, ok.]]>Oct 30th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/
The reason for me to say a total no no to n-gage games was its cheap quality and bad gaming experience.
I used the N-gage QD and still feel (with iphone on my hand) it was the best gaming mobile device i ever had. Though i used n80IE and n958GB with n-gage i never got that feeling.

Now comming to iphone.. iphone's visual effect on games are outstanding compared to ngage but still i miss the game thrill of n-gage QD]]>Oct 30th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/
Original N-Gage: Hybrid device that's a handheld console and GSM cellphone. Includes the original "taco" N-Gage and the N-Gage QD. Games came on MMC cards the way GBA games came on GBA cartridges. Failed miserably due to being GSM-only, expensive and Nintendo's monopoly on the handheld market via GBA that edged out Sega, Bandai and NeoGeo.

N-Gage 2.0: An on-demand download service for "N-Gage enabled" phones of various models. If a Nokia phone was N-Gage 2.0-capable then it could run the N-Gage 2.0 games. Similar to XBLA and WiiWare. Separate store than Nokia Ovi.

Now: Games sold through Ovi store rather than separate N-Gage 2.0 store. N-Gage 2.0 "certification" going away, apparently all Nokia models can run N-Gage 2.0 games if they're running the correct Symbian version.]]>Oct 30th 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/
Well obviously while the 1st Gen N-Gage started out with a decent developer backing, the fact that N-Gage 2.0 was coming off the failed devices not many serious developers jumped on board, also having it run over multiple devices can be troubling, so to cater to the low-end devices you couldn't always use the high-end hardware (kind of a PC gaming effect). Even the iPhone is loaded with crap with some gems there that are actually playable more than a week, it's the same for NGage 2, I mean lets compare Metal Gear Solid for iPhone vs NGage;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kHXb6YhfxQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOOaPQ4hiE]]>Oct 30th 2009 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/
I remember when I KINDA sorta wanted an N-gage phone when it came out...

than I got a gameboy advanced instead.

Come to think of it I haven't heard the term "N-gage" for at least 2 years

Honestly, glad to hear it's coming to an end]]>Oct 30th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Nokia slowly but surely losing smartphone market share. ]]>Oct 30th 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/
DRM issues
Limited selection of games
Poor controls
Requires Set-up/installation
Competion
Cheap alternatives]]>Oct 30th 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/unlimited joy in our
cell phone games and gave
kind words for N-Gage:

All best wishes to you. We
promise to make the Ovi
platform even better with
lots of titles for the best
entertainment on the go.

- Nokia]]>Oct 30th 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/
Good days.. RIP]]>Oct 30th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/Oct 30th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nokia-announces-the-end-of-its-n-gage-gaming-platform/http://www.jesush.com/images/talking-3.jpg

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