Another point for the Gameboy? I guess so!

what a horrid little device.. good riddance.

good idea, but good riddance.

"Learnt"?! WTF?!

i have never acctually seen one of these in person. i dont know anyone who owns one. i dont know why anyone would own one. they majorly suck. why did nokia think they could make it anywhere in the video game business in the first place.

I agree. They majorly, majorly suck. Not to mention the well known fact that telecommunication companies are the foundation of all evil. Them and college bookstores.

From Google: "These are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb learn. Learnt is more common in British English, and learned in American English. There are a number of verbs of this type (burn, dream, kneel, lean, leap, spell, spill, spoil etc.). They are all irregular verbs, and this is a part of their irregularity."

These guys really dont realize what they are doing. They should become a 3rd party company, and start making other bad handheld games for the DS and PSP....on second thought, never mind

By the way GrammarGuy, consider yourself BURNT.

i find it funny that the title of this post begins with "This just in...". i knew from the moment they announced the n-gage, it would not dominate or even compete with a credible video game hardware company like sony or nintendo. i wish more phones would do what they're intended to do: call people.

This just in: Nokia also makes crappy phones

I'm gonna miss laughing at people talking to people on their Nokia "Taco" in public...lol..

When the first N-Gage was coming out, I tried to play a game on it at E3 and not even the people they hired to demo the stuff could figure out how to load up stuff...plus their both (like every year) was completely deserted.

Imagine if the PS2 had been designed so that you had to use a screwdriver to take it apart to change games.

Yeah. That was a great idea, Nokia. Maybe your next game console could have hard-wired games that require 24-character passwords to unlock each time you want to play one? I'm sure if the geniuses at Nokia work hard enough, they can create a game system that is even more inconvenient and useless than the NGage.

As Dan said in "Decline of Video Gaming"...
"That looks like a phone that swallowed a GameBoy!".

Have always hated these things, they appeared to be designed by someone who just thought they had a right to grab a piece of the "gaming pie" but without the years of R&D that other companies had put in. The original system was laughable and flawed, the whole "side talkin'" thing was just patronising and shows what they truly thought of their prospective customer base (ie they thought gamers must all be idiots and / or kids).

Nokia took an interesting idea (phone games) and totally ruined it. In the end, they had neither a great phone nor a great portable game system because it was trying too hard to be both (although they could have come up with a way better design!)

Look for Gizmondo to fold next.

it's amazing, as innovative as nokia has been, not only with the n-gage but with most of their products, you sheep still don't recognize the marvelous efforts and progress nokia has made with the n-gage.

the biased 'journalists' @ joystiq and engadget, who consider greater innovation from sony and m$ with their next gen hardware upgrades, than the n-gage and the revolution really should be ashamed of themselves for being tools who seek only the next advance from sony or microsoft rather than report actual opinions.

it's sad really for all you n-gage haters getting out even more outrage that most likely each one of you have never touched a n-gage for more than 2 minutes at a gamestop.

it's actually pathetic. you rooted against something you never tried or hardly knew anything about. all because joystiq.com told you it was cool. sad.

For the love of god please tell me that you were being sarcastic...

Reading your comments shows that most of you have never seen an N-Gage, let alone speak of even using one. Prejudging the N-Gage speaks volumes on your own personal character. I never liked the original N-Gage despite it's built in MP3 player and Radio.

BUT when the N-Gage QD came out (pictured above), the "Taco" fone was no longer. You didnt have to speak "sideways". You could just pull out the game card without opening anything. (Yes, you dont need a screw driver OR pull out the batter). Screen was brighter. Processor appeared to run faster and great games started showing up for this console.

... The N-Gage and N-Gage QD both have superior graphics to any Nintendo aside from the DS. Today's portable gaming market ranking for graphics: 1. PSP, 2. GB DS, 3. N-Gage, 4. Gizmondo (sux), 5. ? everything else.

Try it out and then make a comment. Don't be a dipshit.

"Great" games huh? Just b/c a great franchise from a console/handheld show up on the N-Gage doesn't mean the N-Gage variation will be great too.

...and "GB DS"? wth? It's NDS...if you are gonna (supposidly) be serious or lecture us then at least get your information right.

agree with jamms,you guys say its a /taco/,but did u really see what the taco can do...ONE,Pathway To Glory,Snakes and the cool lot of games comin around..a cool mp3 player(which doesn't have a 100 song cap :D )connected gaming(can play with anyone anywhere,where there is GSM coverage).since it didn't take off in the US of A,it doesn't mean its a failure.
In the future when mobile gaming really takes off,you guys would think of what nokia wanted to do now with their n-gage!

@ #18. He means the DS. Don't be an idiot, that's off the topic. And nobody's lecturing you, we're posting comments.

Anyway, the N-Gage is vastly underrated. And by far. At least, I suppose, in the US. In Spain, the N-Gage is a perfectly capable phone/gaming console, and *gasp* people don't make fun of it! Thats because people in Spain either have lives and couldn't be arsed about other people's phones, or because they like the N-Gage. I think it's a mixture of both you see.

When I firsst bought my QD, I was looking for a cheap phone that would allow me to do all sorts of things, such as play music and videos (yes, the N-Gage can do these things. Think Nokia 6600). So I stumbled upon the N-Gage and bought it, but I did not buy a game unti three weeks later, I decided to log onto the Arena and read about the games. Ashen is a brilliant first person shooter, Colim McRae 2005 is a perfect rally game for on the go gaming, Pathway to Glory is just... wow, ONE has absolutely amazing graphics, and a long etc.

Given that in Spain, rather than people poking fun at me, I inspire a bit of wonder with my phone. People start asking. Two of my friends have already purchased an N-Gage because of the great experience playing Worms hot seat games was. From what I hear, you yanks are quick to jump to the opportunity to repeat word by word everything that the dicks at engadget and joystiq (both of which are really the same AOL weblog crap) say.

The machine as a gaming console is superb. It's a gaming console to fill in the spaces of time when, say, you're sitting around at the doctor's waiting room, but the games also have enough depth to be played on a couch on a Sunday afternoon. The graphics are brilliant. Take Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, or Asphalt Urban GT. Two absolutely great games for the N-Gage, and guess what, they were ported over to the DS! And ONE has better graphics than any DS game apart from maybe Nintendogs I have seen yet.That is, if graphics matter shit when playing, I thought it was all about fun.

As a phone, well the N-Gage is a brilliant multimedia handset, with thousands of applications reasdy to install, as well as emulators that run without having to crack the firmware. As a phone, its sold over 2 million units, and there is no other phone on the market that can compare to those figures.

Yes, Nokia fucked up big time at launch. But Nokia is so intent on offering a revolutionary and innovative product that they went to the extent of resurfacing with their redesigned N-Gage, and hitting the right spot among gamers. I agree with 14 that Nokia, at launch, tried to make a console/phone, instead of focusing on only one of the features. If it had been marketed as a phone that plays brilliant games rather than a console with a phone, it would have probably been quite a success. Nobody seems to remember, but the hype created at E3 for the N-Gage was quite good. Pity Nokia, who is new to the gaming market, did not know how to take advantage of it.

In conclusion, you people that diss the N-Gage, you guys have probably never as much as come near an N-Gage in your lives. A friend of mine has a PSP and he is quick to make fun of me (in a sarcastic sort of way), but his phone broke down recently, and you would never guess what he's trying out as a phone right now. Yep, and N-Gage. I guess he was impressed by ONE in the end.

And stop reciting the crap that AOL feed you through their shitty blogs like engadget and joystiq. Hackaday was the only good blog from this webring, and it went independent, which makes it all the better.

So just give the N-Gage a look next time you walk into a game store. Try it out. Nokia made an innovative product, along with Nintendo and their DS (which I really admire as a console - it truly provides gameplay), but the media whores who still use the word 'Taco' to criticise the 'gage cannot see the innovation and fun present in these consoles because all they ever do is recite what their told. I poke fun at you idiots. Now bite me, I couldn't give a shit if you dumbasses start insulting me/my mother. I have a life to take care of, and I've wasted too much time posting here so a couple of no-lives can read what I think of them.

I really can't stand to hear all the hate about the N-Gage. Yes, there are some bad games, but there are some really, really good ones, too.

For the price, no other handheld can do all the things the N-Gage can. It really is the Swiss Army knife of gaming handhelds.

For $100, you can get a handheld that not only has a good gaming library, but you can do all these things with it:

- Use it as a cell phone
- Play tons of emulation (Snes, GB, SMS, MAME)
- Play movies
- Play MP3s
- Surf the web with Opera web browser
- Check e-mails
- Instant message
- Store and view pictures
- Read Ebooks
- Use it as a PDA

Try, just try, to show me another handheld that can do all that stuff that's anywhere close to the N-Gage's price point.

Sure, Nokia made some bad decisions with the N-Gage, but the QD fixed a lot of the problems. My only wish is that Nokia would have made the screen horizontal instead of vertical and included shoulder buttons. Other than that, I love my N-Gage.

Piracy has been a major problem for Nokia, too. It's so easy to rip a game for the N-Gage it's not even funny.

I've been deployed to Iraq for a little more than two months now, and my N-Gage has been a life saver. I'm able to play some great games, use it as my alarm clock, watch movies, listen to songs, see pictures of my family when I want to and tons of other things.

If you haven't played the N-Gage or have only played Tomb Raider or Pandemonium for a few minutes at Gamestop, please keep your opinions to yourselves, because you have no idea what you're talking about.

The N-Gage got a bad rap at the very beginning because of the stupidity of gaming journalists. They only saw the faults of the N-Gage without looking at all the awesome things it is capable of.

It's a shame really that the N-Gage will be remembered by most as a dissapointment. However, there are still some really badass games on the horizon, and I can't wait for them.

Jamms, LosBurritos and travis...all 3 of you guys are smokin something.

Asphalt Urban GT...you are kidding me right? That game on the DS was complete crap. Since it was basically a port I HIGHLY doubt that it was any good on the NG. As for Pathway to Glory...that game and maybe 3 others are the only games people mention. That has to be a hint that the thing as a gaming device is a complete joke.

Since you guys can't read, I stated that I had tried messing around with the thing both BEFORE and AFTER it officially was released...and it was a joke.

If the N-Gage is such a success "outside" the US then why is the Nokia both entirely empty at E3? E3 is one of the worlds largest gaming conventions with people from all over the world attending (I've been going to it since 1999) and nothing has changed.

The thing is a joke...and as a former Nokia phone owner their phones are crap.

...plus you guys seem to forget that when Nokia released both versions they wanted to sell them at an ungodly price. Wasn't it $200+ when it initiallu launched and drop in price REAL FAST when no one bought it? You don't think that people bought it then realized it was crap and returned it?

#17 LosBurritos:

so, what you're saying is that the N-Gage's "superios graphics" amount to being better than those of the Gizmondo, which (in your own words) "sux".

interesting. even defenders of that awful little hunk of useless plastic can't find real reasons to actually defend it.

the only legitimate case i've heard is "it had awesome games". well, guess what.. so does my start menu.

jago, try Asphalt on N-Gage before you pipe in please. Besides, Asphalt Urban GT 2 is out, and it's a brilliant game, with music from Moby and the Pussycat Dolls granting their image ingame *gasp* prodcut placement - in the N-Gage! Guess what, there are 2.3 million people who have tried an N-Gage and therefore bought it.

Yes the launch sucked. WE KNOW. But if you want to see the complete list of N-Gage games, the only really bad ones are Puzzle Bobble and Puyo Pop. www.n-gage.com/en-R1/games . Maybe you should also take a look at what the N-Gage can do. Wireless multiplayer gaming wherever you are. Which means not tied to a Wifi hotspot.

About E3, the fact that the booth is or is not empty is not only based on your standards (E3 videos that I saw for the N-Gage revealed a fair amount of journalists in the press conferences and in the booths, although yes this can be biased, no Nokia doesn't give a shit of whether jago thinks the booth is empty or not), but reveals nothing on the quality of the games. I could list kickass games that have come out and are going to come out for the N-Gage here, but the list is too long. Sonething tells me that to shut you up I'm gonna have to post names anyway. Hey, jago, when describing or talking about a system, do you name every single good title there is? Thought not. But here comes the list of all the good N-Gage games there are (which is vastly most of them):

Ashen
Asphalt Urban GT
Asphalt Urban GT2
Atari Masterpieces Volume I
Atari Masterpieces Volume II
Bomberman
Call of Duty
Catan
Colin McRae Rally 2005
Crash Nitro Kart
FIFA 2005
Glimmerati
High Seize
King of Fighters
Mile High Pinball
MotoGP
ONE
Operation Shadow
Pandemonium
Pathway to Glory
Pathway to Glory Ikusa Islands (yes, a sequel!)
Pocket Kingdom
Rayman 3
Requiem of Hell
Rifts: Promise of Power
Snakes (which is for free)
SonicN
SSX: Out of Bounds
System Rush
The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey
The Roots Gates of Chaos
The Sims: Busting Out
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Tomb Raider
Tony Hawks Pro Skater
Virtua Tennis
Worms World Party
Xanadu Next
XMen Legends
XMen Legends II


In case you were too lazy to click the link I provided, this is a list of all the N-Gage games that are absolutely great and worth the 20 euros they cost. A game shouldn't really cost more than 30 euros (I'm looking at PSP games which are not innovative, but only copies of their PS2 equivalents and cost the same anyway).

jago, stop posting your biased opinion about the machine if you have obviously never touched it. And no, when Nokia released the QD, it was released at a far lower price than the admittedly outrageous price tag of the original. But I can guarantee you that the number of peple who returned an N-Gage is very small because the machine is NOT BAD. IN FACT IT IS A VERY GOOD GAMING MACHINE WITH VERY GOOD GAMES and it can do the following things which you seem to have skimmed over:

Use it as a cell phone
- Play tons of emulation (Snes, GB, SMS, MAME)
- Play movies
- Play MP3s
- Surf the web with Opera web browser
- Check e-mails
- Instant message
- Store and view pictures
- Read Ebooks
- Use it as a PDA

So jago, don't post what you think the N-Gage is. Go outside your basement and into a game store, and ask the people there to show you the N-Gage and the games. If you're too biased to do that, check out what the website has to offer www.n-gage.com . I couldn't give a sheit of what you think the N-Gage is, I know it keeps me entertained and it has been the best 150 euros I ever spent on a device.

Wow...eltower...you must not be able to read b/c I said numerous times that I HAVE USED AN N-GAGE BEFORE!!! Is that too hard to comprehend? It must be b/c you keep saying that I've never used it yet I've said from the beginning that I have.

Also for the amount of time that the N-Gage has been out those aren't alot of games plus 2.3 million IS NOT alot for a gaming handheld. If you think the N-Gage is a good handheld gaming device then you must never have heard of a couple devices called the Game Boy, Nintendo DS or PSP.

You might want to stop being in denial b/c when the first N-Gage came out it was a joke...both consumers and the media agreed. When the QD was announced, people laughed even more.

If the N-Gage games are soooooooooooooooooo great then explain to me why the majority of the reviews on here are mediocre to sub-mediocre?

http://www.metacritics.com/games/ngage/scores/

Based on those reviews, that is not alot of games for around a 2 year time frame. The N-Gage can't hold a candle to a GBA, NDS or even a PSP.

"About E3, the fact that the booth is or is not empty is not only based on your standards (E3 videos that I saw for the N-Gage revealed a fair amount of journalists in the press conferences and in the booths, although yes this can be biased, no Nokia doesn't give a shit of whether jago thinks the booth is empty or not)"

Have you been to E3? I HIGHLY doubt that you have. I can guarantee that if you were to ask anyone who has been to E3, they will say something similar. As for the press conference stuff, those are always held elsewhere (conference hall, hotel ballroom, etc.) and usually not on the exhibit floor.

Both the DS and the PSP have sold a little over 2 million units...that has been done in a year or less. Usually if a device does everything then you will be sacrificing on other features to make it affordable...hence the case with the N-Gage.

I'm glad you like your device but when people from Nokia themselves say that the N-Gage was a failure then you don't have much of an argument.

In my opinion n-gage is one of the best gaming consoles i have ever held in my hands.

It has the best community, rankings, ranks, game chats, trivias and lotsa tournys.

As a device i appreciate it cuz it's the quickes way to play with some dudes all over the world using Bluetooth (yeah bt) or just GPRS.

Cheers

PS. Christopher Grant u suck :)

Some people have different tastes in games and devices, but for me the N-Gage is an awesome device - sure it may not have lots of games like the GBA, however it does have some sweet graphics on some games (espically for a mobile phone) - also playing online via Bluetooth is awesome - ever since i got my N-GAGE 2 yrs ago i've looked and played on GBA games but they never really interested me, the N-Gage is like an XBOX - its mainly for older teen audiences.

Anyway what im saying is your own opinion is what you choose and nothing can change that - i respect other peoples views but just bashing something before you ever try it is what annoys me.

Also on a last note some people bash the N-GAGE (NGE) for saying it has bad GFX, so why don't people bash the DS? - it has the same GFX (if not worse) and 2 Games were direct ports, with a few tweaks, from the N-Gage, Asphalt Urban GT and Splinter Cell: Choas Theory. I Think the reason why people don't bash the DS/GBA is because its part of a sucessful gaming industry, or they are just too afraid of a change of gaming style.

Whatever the haters say (the majority of which have never actually used one), it doesn't change the fact that I'm perfectly happy with my QD - say what you want, I'll be in the corner watching movies, listening to music, playing games, making phone calls, frying eggs...

Besides, jago, you may not like it, but it does not exhume the fact that the N-Gage is a very good device, both as a phone and as a gaming device. The reviews you posted come from one source, and gaming magazines make profit from companies coughing up money for a good review. You don't honestly think that a gaming magazine, with such little scope and audience can make money solely off advertising?

Besides, the media reports I read, on a net value, favour the N-Gage games that came out after the pathetic launch.

Oh, and one last thing before I leave for good and stop wasting my time, jago, only once did you say you handled an N-Gage, and that was in comment number 10, where you said you wanted to try one at an E3.

You can keep your high doubts to yourself, I have never been to E3. But the level of media attention of something is not indicative of the quality. Or else Emma Bunton would be the next Mozart.

The QD does not sacrifice on 'other features'. It simply does everything a phone like the 6600 does (and if you insist it to take pictures, you can use a Bluetootk enabled mobile camera) but includes a brilliant and innovative gaming platform. Its affordable in the way an Xbox 360 is affordable. Nokia loses money on the N-Gage (and the Microsoft loses what, 100-200 dollars pero Xbox 360 sold?), and the profits from game licensing and sales keep the platform subsidised.

jago, don't bother posting again, I won't read any more of your biased, contradictory posts backed by falacial evidence. Just try to have more background on subjects than the opinion of a single news source. That should give you a broader perspective.

#29 "PS. Christopher Grant u suck :)"

What's that? I didn't even notice this thread, too busy admiring my PSP and playing all those great DS games. ;)

So now you are telling me what to do? Wow you think I'm gonna listen to you?

I can tell you didn't actually click some of the games on the Metacritics link I gave you b/c if you did thenyou would know that those are AVERAGE scores gathered from various game magazine and websites.

It wouldn't surprise me if some reviewers are paid. Then again you people seem to think that if a reviewer gives a game a particular score that you don't agree with that they are paid. Do you know what reviews are? OPINIONS!!! Not everyone has the same tastes in gaming...you do realize that right? You probably don't.

It's funny how you guys still defend the N-Gage like it was a success when the freakin company who made the damn thing said it was a failure.

If you are gonna bring in thr whole graphics debate then you must be digging at the bottom of the barrel b/c graphics aren't everything. The N-Gage could have graphics better then the PSP and it would still be a failure b/c the screen is so pathetic.

" I won't read any more of your biased, contradictory posts backed by falacial evidence"

Really? So this whole story announced that N-Gage is a failure is fake right? Plus it's not like you were entirely reading my posts anyways.

The thing is, when somebody sticks up for a dying system people automatically assume that the person believes it to be the most fantastic system ever created.

That's simply not the case. There is a huge difference in saying a system isn't as bad as its made out to be, and saying its the best ever.

THPS, WWP, TW, MHP, PTG: IKUSA ISLANDS, ONE, ALL ARE HELLA AWESOME GAMES ON DA GAGE

N GAGE PWNZ NINTENDO DS BIG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if u bastards dont like the n gage, go to http://boards.1up.com im hella sure they all would appreciate u there :)

jago,one more thing...metacritic haven't updated thier site,all those games on the upcoming list are all out and they have system rush still on the upcoming list.

all those games,are really good ones and they will if opinions posted will garner good ratings.

one more thing,please don't compare these games with those on consoles..do keep in mind that this is after all a mobile phone and comparing it with other platforms is not correct.
thanx:)

Yea. Jago is a retard. He's basing ALL his information on some retarded website that hasn't been updated for months.

What. A. Retard.

So you wanted someone to do a review on a game that came out 1+ year ago?

Either way the company who made the N-Gage said that their product was a F-A-I-L-U-R-E...

simply a piece of bullshit over here specialy the guy post above me

WTH!!comparin Gage wid other handheld?? n gage is not solely a gamin console it iz + A Cell phone

user of n gage since it iz in town no problem yet with it nor wid QD nd for sure it iz the best yet in Games+Mobile please dont argue on if you dont know for wht you all hittin your headzz on wall. N-GAGE is FAILURE then why the hell nokia iz releasing new game nd also there is annoucement for gamez in yr 2006?? n gage loose itz trend becuz itz quite old now becuz a number cumin new mobile wid latest technologies as compare to international market but iz there n e similarily found in other one hell mobile as compare to NGAGE?? STFU dont reply wid the name of PSP, GBA, NDS.

Respect otherz opinion they will respect yourz for many people out there ngage becumz a part of body not a cellphone go nd ask them how much they love it if you cudnt find n e cum to me ..crapp!!!

jago,i didn't say they came out one+ year back..
here's the launch schedule
system rush--September 2006
Atari Masterpeices I:September 2006
ONE,High Seize--October 2006
Pathway To Glory:ikusa Islands-November 2006
Mile High pinball-November 2006
Rifts:Pormise of Power-November 2006
X-Men Legends II:Rise of the Apocalypse-November 2006
Asphalt Urban GT:2-November 2006
These were the games released in the past two months and they(Nokia)are unveiling a new game next month,Shadow-Born(already announced)which i'm definitely sure will push the boundary of mobile gaming.

I'm confused as to why nokia had made this announcement when they have a great line up of games well into the second half of '06

FYI,th upcoming games are as follows
Civilization--February 2006
Warhammer 40,000:Glory In death:March 2006
Shadow Born:TBD
Habbo-Hotel:TBD
Payload:april 2006
Atari Masterpeices II:March 2006
SPIRITS--TBD

With all these great franchises,the n-gage might have done well if they had started increasing the product range.
I'm sure,if you look around(GAMESPOT is a famous name and they review n-gage games,IGN does too,1UP gave the award of BEST MOBILE GAME to RIFTS on the N-Gage,GAMESPOT gave MOST ANTICIPATED MOBILE GAME to Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory)

I agree with #14 (eric??)Nokia took a great idea.

THanx :)

fuAD_soUL...learn how to f*ckin spell.

UPDATE:IGN also review n-gage games,here's their review of ONE,they've given it 8.0

http://ngage.ign.com/articles/671/671741p1.html