Nokia N-GAGE sells estimated 400,000 units!!!

Bogdan · Post by **Bogdan** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:19 am 0

N-Gages Sales Figures

Just saw this on a gaming mag news site:
http://www.polygonmag.com/news/index.php?id=1019

By Dennis Day, News Editor
Published October 22, 2003 -- 04:42 pm CDT

Wireless giant Nokia revealed today that their handheld game platform "N-Gage" sold an estimated 400,000 units within its first two weeks of availability. Speaking with Reuters today, Nokia's senior vice president Ilkka Raiskinen described sales in Europe and Asia as "very strong." An estimated 5000 users per day have used the N-Gage's mobile gaming capabilities since its release. The N-Gage was released approximately two weeks ago through 30,000 retail outlets spanning several countries. Nokia reportedly plans to expand their grasp on the market by offering the N-Gage through new retail partners beginning later this year. For reference, the N-Gage retails for nearly triple the retail price of Nintendo's GameBoy Advance platform.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:25 am 0

What... in their dreams?

Bogdan · Post by **Bogdan** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:27 am 0

Say what you will about the N-Gage, but I'm pulling for them to come through!

There needs to be a viable alternative to the GBA and the Sony PSP in the handheld segment...the N-GAGE, despite its flaws, is a decent system and has the potential to succeed to some degree!

Ads · Post by **Ads** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:28 am 0

Knowing how many are in the hands of punters would be more interesting. Is this is the actual sell-through figure? It could be that they've loaded their channel (distributors and resellers) with inventory. Let's see what the figures are like in a few months.

For the record, I'm undecided about the N-GAGE.

Post by **Jedburgh** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:40 am 0

That's one sold, per store, per day. Not exactly a rush, is it?

Digital-Knight · Post by **Digital-Knight** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:50 am 0

It's probably the number they shipped to stores, the amount actually in homes is probably closer to 400. Nokia with N-Gage have made trip hawkins look like a complete success.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:00 am 0

Heh, I knew Trip Hawkins would be onto a loser after I badgered him to distribute my lightsynths in the US at some London computer show and told him firmly that they were "more electronic art than any of the stuff you are doing" and he, for some reason, completely refused to comply

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Digital-Knight · Post by **Digital-Knight** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:04 pm 0

The one that came built in with the 3DO was just sickening to my eyes... the horror!! . I remember when I first bought a PSX though, there was some groovy demo disk with a light synth of sorts, I think it was developed by psygnosis, had these massive heads you could control, among other things... now that was decent enough. God knows how trip let that farce ship with the 3DO.

Led*Zep · Post by **Led*Zep** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:20 pm 0

I loved my 3DO (shouldn't have sold it). Need for Speed was one of the best games of all times. I still sometimes dream about it

Still no 3DO emulator though.

Rock on

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:38 pm 0

It IS the number shipped to stores. From what I've heard less than 10,000 have been sold so far in the US...

Post by **Jedburgh** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:44 pm 0

So they hoped to sell one unit, per store, per day?

There's confidence in your product...

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 5:35 pm 0

Gamespot.com reported that 5,000 N-Gages were sold across the United States in the first week.

Must have been a hell of a rush for them in week 2!

dtj · Post by **dtj** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 5:57 pm 0

Bogdan wrote:N-Gages Sales Figures

Just saw this on a gaming mag news site:
http://www.polygonmag.com/news/index.php?id=1019

By Dennis Day, News Editor
Published October 22, 2003 -- 04:42 pm CDT

Wireless giant Nokia revealed today that their handheld game platform "N-Gage" sold an estimated 400,000 units within its first two weeks of availability. Speaking with Reuters today, Nokia's senior vice president Ilkka Raiskinen described sales in Europe and Asia as "very strong." An estimated 5000 users per day have used the N-Gage's mobile gaming capabilities since its release. The N-Gage was released approximately two weeks ago through 30,000 retail outlets spanning several countries. Nokia reportedly plans to expand their grasp on the market by offering the N-Gage through new retail partners beginning later this year. For reference, the N-Gage retails for nearly triple the retail price of Nintendo's GameBoy Advance platform.

They sold 400,000 units in a simulation; they used their own super-computer powered by 400,000 Nokia cell phones...

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 6:17 pm 0

Led*Zep wrote:I loved my 3DO (shouldn't have sold it). Need for Speed was one of the best games of all times. I still sometimes dream about it Still no 3DO emulator though.

Rock on

http://www.freedo.org/

Mike_Vox · Post by **Mike_Vox** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:26 pm 0

I would not trust those sales figures further than I could throw an N-Gage out the window.

YakYak

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