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

A Black Falcon · Post by **A Black Falcon** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:10 pm 0

They sold 400,000 alright... to stores worldwide. That's not the number actually purchased by consumers. That number is far smaller.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 5:58 am 0

From game stores the N-gage/GBA ratio was 30:1

Obvious that will be much beter once you count other electrical retailers, but that number is certainly not the actual number sold to customers.

NickMon · Post by **NickMon** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:34 am 0

As i have said elsewhere, I have one, Â£49 upgrade with O2...

I quite like it sure it has problems (screen a little small, keys a little bad etc, strange to hold as a phone...)

But with the net and the abilility to errr like download a lot of java games (for errr em free), its actually not...

And whats Â£50 to play something a little different until psp ro what ever arrives..

I still have my NEO GEO Pocket and "limited" set of games and still love it and use it, & GP32 and PCEngine handheld....

Its what u make of it that matters..

Bogdan · Post by **Bogdan** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:12 pm 0

NickMon wrote:As i have said elsewhere, I have one, Â£49 upgrade with O2...

I quite like it sure it has problems (screen a little small, keys a little bad etc, strange to hold as a phone...)

But with the net and the abilility to errr like download a lot of java games (for errr em free), its actually not...

And whats Â£50 to play something a little different until psp ro what ever arrives..

I still have my NEO GEO Pocket and "limited" set of games and still love it and use it, & GP32 and PCEngine handheld....

Its what u make of it that matters..

Well stated! It's just amazing to see how much bashing the N-Gage receives. Folks, do we really want Sony to become a monopoly in the handheld gaming sector too? That would be a very bad thing indeed!

Let's give the underdog some support!

Post by **Jedburgh** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:38 pm 0

Bogdan wrote:Well stated! It's just amazing to see how much bashing the N-Gage receives.

No it isn't. The screen's too small, the keys are iffy, it's too cumbersome for a mobile, the games aren't up to much. It's an interesting move towards 'phone-as-terminal', but it's doomed to failure. As the catastrophic sales demonstrate.

Folks, do we really want Sony to become a monopoly in the handheld gaming sector too? That would be a very bad thing indeed!
Let's give the underdog some support!

Buy a second-rate handheld to fend off the PSP? I think not. I'm happy with my GBA-SP, thanks, and I'll do my bit to prevent Sony's brave attempt to steal the handheld market from Nintendo by simply not buying a PSP. I'm not interested in a non-solid-state handheld, anyway.

NickMon · Post by **NickMon** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:06 pm 0

Come on lets all be grown up about this, I had some money to blow and at the end of the day what harm is there in spending only Â£50 to play a few java pirates...? and explore the Symbian OS (did not have it before on any phones..).

This may well be the 1st generation of some thing like this - it took the GBA to get to the SP level before its really something..

So it may not last or sell well, i dont care, it works for me....It can join the large list of failures i have pershased (the Lynx, the NEO GEO pocket by some eyes is a massive failure...)

P.S. I have GBA and GBA SP as well !

Peace !

Post by **Jedburgh** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:20 pm 0

NickMon wrote:Come on lets all be grown up about this, I had some money to blow and at the end of the day what harm is there in spending only Â£50 to play a few java pirates...? and explore the Symbian OS (did not have it before on any phones..).

This may well be the 1st generation of some thing like this - it took the GBA to get to the SP level before its really something..

So it may not last or sell well, i dont care, it works for me....It can join the large list of failures i have pershased (the Lynx, the NEO GEO pocket by some eyes is a massive failure...)

P.S. I have GBA and GBA SP as well !

Peace !

All perfectly valid. But then you're not coming across like the kid who got a Dragon 32 and was trying to convince everyone that it was really good, honest!

ross · Post by **ross** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:24 pm 0

[quote="Jedburgh]But then you're not coming across like the kid who got a Dragon 32 and was trying to convince everyone that it was really good, honest!

[/quote]

s/Dragon 32/Oric 1/g and that was me

The register has something to say about the 400k figure .. here http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/33555.html

Ahchay · Post by **Ahchay** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:27 pm 0

NickMon wrote:Come on lets all be grown up about this, I had some money to blow and at the end of the day what harm is there in spending only Â£50 to play a few java pirates...? and explore the Symbian OS (did not have it before on any phones..).

Nothing wrong with that

However, personally, I am just finding it difficult to get excited about the Ngage. What is it? A phone? A games console? Because, from the little I've played with it, it does neither particularly well.

This isn't something that's unique to the Ngage by any means, Pocket PC devices have the same problems. I love the idea of a single device that does it all - PDA! Games! Phone! Camera! ebook reader! MP3 player! - but I still haven't seen anything that delivers on the promise.

I might pick one up on Ebay for curiosities sake in a few months time.

Nickmon wrote:NEO GEO pocket by some eyes is a massive failure

Oi, that's fighting talk that is

Cheers
Chris

NickMon · Post by **NickMon** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:52 pm 0

Nickmon wrote:NEO GEO pocket by some eyes is a massive failure

Oi, that's fighting talk that is

he he

but I must say I love your Robotron Icon !

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:59 pm 0

NickMon wrote:and explore the Symbian OS (did not have it before on any phones..).

So you didn't upgrade from another Nokia phone then? Every Nokia phone for the last three years or so has run on Symbian40 or Symbian60.

I must say that when I held a N-Gage the other day, it was surprisingly light and the buttons were excellently placed. Of course, I couldn't test the device because it wasn't actually working

venusian · Post by **venusian** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:49 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:So you didn't upgrade from another Nokia phone then? Every Nokia phone for the last three years or so has run on Symbian40 or Symbian60.

Are you sure? The Series 60 (7650, 3650, 3660, N-Gage) is Symbian but I'm pretty sure the Series 30 & 40 (erm.. 3300, 7210, 3510i, and most other recent Nokia colour phones) are running a custom Nokia OS. Certainly neither S30 or S40 offer any of the standard Symbian apps or access to the Symbian APIs.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:18 pm 0

Im sure i read about a JAVA add-on for the GBA....

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:20 pm 0

venusian wrote:Are you sure?

Not any more

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:36 am 0

teamonkey wrote:Every Nokia phone for the last three years or so has run on Symbian40 or Symbian60.

Three years? That sounds a little generous... my last phone wa mid-2001 (oooh, low-tech

) and there wasn't a sniff of Symbian in the Nokia-ified air then...

Edit: Ah, what venusian said