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Posted: Nov 29th 2006 10:51PM (Unverified) said

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no....once again nokia will spend millions of dollors investing in this wanna be swissarmy-handheld....i would like to know what game developers would take thier bribes let alone put a game on that eyesore....I wouldn't be caught dead talking on that thing....

I have a nintendo DS, and a PSP and they do thier purpous (sp)...though it's nice to have all the features of the psp...I wouldn't want it to have a phone attatchment....

If the past is any indication...phones and portable gaming dont' mix....

Posted: Nov 29th 2006 10:54PM (Unverified) said

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HAHAHAHAHA.

Oh god Nokia do you make me laugh :P

Posted: Nov 29th 2006 11:23PM (Unverified) said

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*nods head in shame for nokia*

Posted: Nov 30th 2006 2:37AM (Unverified) said

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what!? wot a load of garbage! a standalone games platform with limited borwser capabiliteis!? wth!? and then a mp3 phone with a bl**dy good games platform!? have i ever herd so much trash in one sentence? he mr nokia! the psp can do mp3s just as well as ur phone, can watch any movies u wanna, and plays great games that are way better then sum phone! and wot are u stealing a touch sreen from DS as well? just great nokia. o and i suppose will be holding that great brick on our eer? if i wanted to do that i would 'brick' my psp(soz for the very bad pun folks) go away nokia and stay with ur phones.

Posted: Nov 30th 2006 7:59AM (Unverified) said

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N-gage , thgought it wasnt that bad , it was a failure , they think if Sony can brake into the handeheld market so can they ... they are sooo wrong lol This will be a slaughterhaus lol

Posted: Nov 30th 2006 9:17AM (Unverified) said

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i don't know man it has hard enough to being with for sony to do it consider now there acutaly a gaming company now and now they want to try this again with sony and nintendo when they didn't had a chance with just plan gba?

Posted: Nov 30th 2006 11:02PM 4ham said

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Why does Nokia continue to hold onto this idea that Portal Gaming on Phones is the future? People on average change phones at least once a year to take advantage of better features and better deals. Why would anyone willingly get locked down in a service contract just so they can game?

Posted: Nov 30th 2006 5:48PM (Unverified) said

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lol...why is there a warcraft III simulated image on the screen? Like you would want to play it with a handheld...

Posted: Nov 30th 2006 7:41PM (Unverified) said

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"and wot are u stealing a touch sreen from DS as well"

I'm not sure you'll understand this since your grasp of the written language is sorely in doubt -- but the DS wasn't the first handheld to play games with a stylus, nor was it the first gaming handheld with a touchscreen.

Posted: Dec 1st 2006 5:21PM (Unverified) said

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Martin O'Driscoll - I'm sorry but you don't know what the hell you're 'sidetalkin' about!
http://www.sidetalkin.com/

Posted: Nov 30th 2006 7:39PM wshwe said

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Consumers have shown they will not pay a premium for devices with more features. Focused devices outsell feature-rich devices time and time again. I thought Nokia wanted customers to play games on their mainstream mass market phones, not phones with every feature known to mankind. I've got news for Nokia! Serious gamers won't play games on vertically designed phones. Most of the phones Nokia sells are either candy bar or flip style.

Posted: Nov 30th 2006 7:14PM (Unverified) said

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I've had my psp since launch day in the US. I was into the whole homebrew scene and all of that but after awile it got boring. After that my psp has just been sitting around collecting dust. I had high hopes for 3.00 but was let down again. I've been loyal to sony since the ps1 first came out. But after all of these years i think its time for me to sell my psp and the only reason why I still might get a ps3 would only be for the most part final fantasy and kingdom hearts. Sorry for babbling on just had to get that out of my system.

Posted: Dec 5th 2006 7:18PM (Unverified) said

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The only feature that could save a device such as this; Broadband Internet Access. Like services offered for laptops, if this phone can or any could, that would be a true contender in the portable market.

Though, what makes or breaks a console or device for me are the controls... can I adjust?

Posted: Dec 1st 2006 2:44PM (Unverified) said

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to the execs at nokia, you need to pass what you are smokin' on to someone else. wasn't the original n-gage filled with features above the reigning competition at the time?

it is not, and never has been, easy to step into any console market. esp. handhelds.

untill the psp, nintendo has had many a would be contender step up with more features or what not and get knocked down like dominos sence 1989 with the game boy.
sony, with the playstation name behind it has been the only one to take a sizeable chunk and really make a name for itself in handhelds. for many reasons and qualitys which you lack nokia.

the very fact that you are pursuing this shows that you don't really understand why the n-gage failed. (yes it was poorly designed, yes it didn't have good support (for good reason), and yes you held on for far too long to that platform, but fixing these ideals isn't enough)
what's more, with the vast economic bloodbath that was the n-gage, you have established a huge distrust among the gaming community and various retailers. many believe the reason sega had a hard time trying to make a comback with the dreamcast was because of the distrust established with the failure of saturn and 32x. i really hope you have a plan in place to fix this problem.

read what Virtuous and 4ham have to say, then, if you really want to expand your markets into gaming and offer something new try making a standard 3d/cpu chipset and button layout that can be incorperated to all/most nokia phones and make it available to other cell phone manufacturers. maybe standerdize games so they can be ported from phone to phone like the numbers on my sim card.
just don't repeat your mistakes. it only makes youself looks stupid and games on phones as a whole will only take a step back in acceptance.

Posted: Dec 1st 2006 4:31PM (Unverified) said

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If they make a half decent machine, that will play good games, better than the psp, sure, i'll get it..

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