Nokia are trying to beat Nintendo again!
[QUOTE][I]The consumer will have to make a decision: does he wants a standalone gaming device with a limited browsing capability or a phone with an MP3 player, a camera and a bloody good games platform? I think consumers will be prepared to spend
Hopefully they have better success this time around so they won't be such a joke.
You kidding? Their strategy already ensures total failure.
It wasn't so bad when they were just competing with the GBA, which had comparitively poor graphics. Now they have to deal with the PSP and the DS, both of which have locked on to the major developers that Nokia depended on... unless they have some truely incredible graphics on this machine, it's going to end up as what the N-Gage was- an expensive phone with a couple games on it.
SNAKES
If Sony can't compete with Nintendo in handhelds, it obviously means one thing.
[i]NOKIA CAN.
kbutsrsly I'm excited to see failure.
That's only about 599 US dollars! Victory is theirs.
k, I should rephrase. :(
Sony isn't smart enough to be able to succeed in overdoing Nintendo. :cookie:
Yeah, I totally knew what you meant. Just being an *** for no reason.
They've sold me. I'm picking one up at launch.
I wonder what genius's idea it was to make the N-Gage have a vertical screen, too. Sure it's great for arcade ports, but a Sonic game? Lordy, no.
[quote=Vampiro V. Empire]The DS version worked pretty well.
The DS had a remotely decent horizontal resolution to begin with.
There are two simple reasons (one or the other always takes affect) why Nintendo currently has a stranglehold on the handheld market (Get it? Strangling? Handhelds? LOL!). The first reason is because their hardware is highly innovative (see: Nintendo DS), and the second reason is because of their massive game library (see: Gameboy) that not only has a lot of original games (see: Nintendo DS), but a large amount of classics that we all know and love ported on to it (see: Gameboy).
And what about Nintendo's reputation for making quality products? Dead pixels on a screen happen, whatever, no big deal. However, how many times have any of you dropped your DS/GBA/GB? I had a GameBoy Color for several years. That thing took more abuse than a porn star in a snuff film, and still rocked just as hard as the day I bought it. I worked at GameStop for three measly months, and at least 7/10 PSPs were exchanged because they stopped working. One kid told me that he had one in his school backpack, and it somehow shifted it's way to the bottom. In some sort of sick cosmic joke, when he set his bag down, his physics book broke the screen.
As for Nokia's chances to make it in the handheld world? Well, let's just say that if it's durable, has a good library of games, plays MP3s well, works well has a phone, and is... well... basically, everything the N-Gage wasn't, they may have a shot. Otherwise, they're going to be like an overused Kansas cliche.[spoiler]That's "Dust in the Wind," for whoever doesn't get it.[/spoiler]
I wonder if there are die hard nokia gaming fans now. Or something in that order, Id love to see one! They must be pretty rare.
The original got random PS2 games and made them crap/crapper than usual.
Red Faction, A Tony Hawk game, and I don't know any others. I don't play the N-Gage. :)
No, it got random PS1 games.
[quote=Apathetic]I wonder if there are die hard nokia gaming fans now. Or something in that order, Id love to see one! They must be pretty rare.
GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL!!!
lol replacing faliure with faliure
they both managed to create 2 failing handheld systems, except one was a cooler concept, but failed, and now Sony failed PS3 and now they are leaving Nokia to fail again. So much fail its funny! I cant wait until the Apple video game system.
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You didn't like the Apple II?
Pelican.
Anyway, N-Gage could work if all it was was a phone with better controls for games - phone games are quite abundant and popular now. It's when you try and make it a dedicated machine with phone functionality that you get a problem.
I'm glad they had just passed a bill here; forbidding persons under the age of 21 to drive while using cell phones under penalty of misdemeanor charges/fine. This state is full of idiots, so we have alot of recockulous bylaws and regulations to uphold.
Under 21? Pff. No one here can drive and use a cellphone.
Well, no one here can drive, period. They're all ****ing primitives; riding the horn, running their face on the cell phone, signaling only when they fall asleep at the wheel. The entire state of NC drives like one gigantic culmination of Idiot. I drive better than them even [if I wanted to do it] drunk, and I've had a clean record for 9 years.