Nokia discusses the future of N-Gage

Gamasutra had a sit down with Nokia's N-Gage chief, Jani Karlsson, to discuss what's ahead for the mobile gaming platform, and while Karlsson says we'll have to wait until next month at the Game Developers Conference for the real news, he did drop a few tidbits. As Nokia announced last year, they're planning on bringing the N-Gage platform to some new smartphones this year, but Karlsson states that
"The performance power of the soon to market devices is really catching up on the console performance." Which would imply an update to the graphics prowess of the current N-Gage, and his admissions of problems with form factor seem to point to a new N-Gage specific device. We guess we'll see soon, let's just hope it's the N-Gage 2 or some such beauty — for $50.