Topic: Nokia N-Gage v.s Game Boy Advance SP

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Of course, let's all be open minded and give EVERYTHING a chance, just like our role model, Doc. We should ALL follow his example and never judge anything too soon.








I swear, the internet attract the biggest clowns.

[Ms.Pikmin]

The Doc, we have already had a big debate on this forum about the SP being a child's toy vs. N-Gage being for adults.  Several of us who are definitely out of range of being referred to as a child said we preferred the SP to N-Gage.  It's okay if you think the N-Gage is the best thing since the wheel but some of us have a different opinion.  The two things I think we have all agreed on is that good graphics or not, the way you have to change out the games and especially the very low battery life are reason enough to stay away.  Get the N-Gage if you want, and enjoy sitting in a car or wherever you play, with it plugged in so you can once again recharge your short-life battery on this wonderful "portable" gaming device.




 

[kennyb27]

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Pikkcuber, you might want to check your history again you idiot. or you could save time and read the new articles on the PSP that say "This is Sony's FIRST forray into the handheld market."

You may want to check your history, Neo X, Sony had a handheld in Japan.  However, it never came close to challenging the GameBoy and never made the trip across the ocean.

[darknight06]

I remember that thing, it was called the Sony Pocketstation.   I dunno know if I'd call it a portable though, it was more like the Dreamcast VMU than anything else.  Now here's something I would love to know, Nokia announces the N-Gage and all of a sudden the GBASP, once "sleek and sexy" is now a kids toy?  I just have this to say, gimme my kids toy then.  The fact that the thing functions as a phone and has an OS is gonna hold that thing back.  That, and why is the screen so thin?  Yeah it's 10 pixels wider than the GB and 40 more vertically, but WHY?  You would think if they wanted to do 3D graphics (or any graphics for that matter) on this thing they'd give it at the most a widescreen format bigger than the GBA screen.  I mean, when Sonic Adva..  I mean N needs a letter boxing mode to see the full view something's wrong.  Not to mention the fact that doing so sends the graphics into the abyss.  I can't see this thing with a fighting game at all unless they format the graphics so you hold the thing vertically.  And even then that's gonna be some awkward stuff.  Thing is though, none of this really matters anyway, the PSP hype coupled with the GBA's current lineup will probably kill it off anyhow.  

[Neo X]

Where Nokia will fail, TTPCom will succed. They plan on releasing a gamesystem w/ a phone. Rather than have the GameButtons be the 5 and 7 of the phone they are seperate from the keypad. this should make them easyer to hit. http://www.ttpcom.com/ttpcom/bngo/

[Cap]

from gamerfeed.com:

"Nokia announced today that Electronics Boutique will be the Canadian vendor for the upcoming handheld, N-Gage. The handheld is expected to sell for $449 CDN and games are expected to retail from $45 to $55 CDN."


what the hell is nokia thinking? $45-$55 for games? $450 for the system? only the most expensive gba games cost $45 dollars in canada, and i think thats ridiculous. on top of that, for the price of the system i could just about get a new ps2 and xbox to sit beside my gamecube. i cant see how nokia even thinks they have a chance with this thing with these kind of prices.

[shogunnononey]

The N Gage is out and it sucks. Offical sources say that Nokia sold 400,000 consoles to stores in the U.K., but the stores only sold 500 units in its first 2 weeks out. It also  only sold 5,000 units in the U.S. Which it was outsold by the Gba 20 to 1, which sold 100,00 units without any special advertising or promotions. Let the Numbers Speak.

[KDR_11k]

It's out for a while now. It's even cracked already, meaning you can rip games from the NG and play them on any other Symbian phone.

[Flames_of_chaos]

whomp whomp

[dee kay]

since when did sony try to compete with nintendo in the handhelds?

[Majexto]

Dee Kay ive looked at so many posts in the past couple days that you had responded to with questions that are answered incredibly easily by just reading the post.  

If you would simply scroll up a couple message your answer is there.

[dee kay]

ok no need for the attitude

[Grey Ninja]

dee kay, please just post some meaningful content.  I mean, when you make comments like that, we could easily have just as much of an intelligent conversation by talking to our local brick wall.  I have not seen a single one of your posts yet that is longer than one line, and/or contains any intellectual content.

[dee kay]

ok fine

[vudu]

but he's got sure a great (not to mention, too large) avatar of the panasonic q.  that's gotta be worth something, right?

[TenceRiker]

I came...I played....I was disgusted.

Seriuosly N-Gage is a mockery of the video game businesss. If it was any worse than it is already i'd pissed off at stores for sellin' it. Trust me if the employess at local "real" Gamestop ain't carryin it don't buy it. The employess at mine knew like most people it was gonna suck and don't carry it, unless you pre-order it to be shipped there. Nokia sucks at games end of case. Point. Period.

[Nightingale]

Processor  , Memory , &  all core specs  : N-Gage Win
Screensize                                             : Gameboy Win (no Doubt)
Colors on LCD                                        : Gameboy Win (32.000),  4096 on N-Gage and I wonder why only 4096 with it's great Specs.    

But Not all judges by Specs and power
It's all about games choice. (and screen size of course)
a huge games choice on GBA
how'bout N-gage try to beat it for the Rest of N-Gage life

[KDR_11k]

The GBA can display only 512 colors at once, but yes, its pallette is larger. Also, colors aren't much of a restriction with a screen that low-res.

[Pikkcuber]

Nightingale your missing the most important categorie- Best Games, and we all know N-gage has superior exclusive games.

[romsman]

n-gage might have exclusive games but they aren't good, look at ashen and others,they suck,nokia's n-gage has only 2 good games: splinter cell and rayman 3 but they aren't exclusive, if you take a look at some of the GBA(sp) 's exclusive games: ex.: golden sun they rule.
now some people will like some of the games for n-gage but if you look around on some sites like gamespot then you'll see that the only thing where the n-gage has suceeded  in is making good games like thps and red faction play like crap.
I'm not a fanboy cause i have almost every console/handheld there is exept for the n-gage(yes even the game gear)
but nintendo is right about one thing: most people don't care about graphics if a game is good and fun to play with easy to use controls then it will sell much more then a game with superb graphics wich plays like it was created by cavemen.