Title: RE: Nokia N-Gage ver. 1.5 (the new model)
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 12, 2004, 04:17:59 PM
What the hell!? That thing is just as bad! X_X
Title: RE:Nokia N-Gage ver. 1.5 (the new model)
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 14, 2004, 01:42:20 PM
GameInformer.com has a review of the new N-Gage QD (N-Gage 2.0) written up by Billy B.
Title: RE: Nokia N-Gage ver. 1.5 (the new model)
Post by: Djunknown on April 14, 2004, 05:37:51 PM
Its not that bad... Looks a little sleeker, ,and doesn't have as many [useless] bells and whistles. Is it possible to get one without breaking the bank?
All it needs is some GREAT games to go with it.
Title: RE: Nokia N-Gage ver. 1.5 (the new model)
Post by: Uncle Rich AiAi on April 14, 2004, 07:18:56 PM
Why didn't they design it like that in the first place? Stupid engineers....
Title: RE:Nokia N-Gage ver. 1.5 (the new model)
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 15, 2004, 11:21:50 AM
Here is also an interview with Nokia's head of games over at GamesIndustry.biz
Title: RE: Nokia N-Gage ver. 1.5 (the new model)
Post by: Draygaia on April 17, 2004, 10:56:54 AM
The only thing that Nokia did right was that they actually got smarter.
Title: RE: Nokia N-Gage ver. 1.5 (the new model)
Post by: KnowsNothing on April 17, 2004, 03:41:13 PM
I actually hate the new version far worse than the original. The first layout I actually didn't think was THAT bad (except the buttons, which appparently got worse), but this thing is grotesque.........
Well, they made a few good decisions this time around, butt nobody really cares.
- Smithers
Title: RE:Nokia N-Gage ver. 1.5 (the new model)
Post by: alvinaloy on April 17, 2004, 04:22:00 PM
Thought the question should be: how soon after the release of this N-Gage before Nokia comes out with another newer, 'better' N-Gage? They churn out new phones like nobody's business and I seem to detect the same trend (yeah, a trend with 2 phones ) with the N-Gage.
Title: RE: Nokia N-Gage ver. 1.5 (the new model)
Post by: SearanoX on April 17, 2004, 06:45:59 PM
You know a console isn't doing well when they have to redesign it just a few months after it's launch.
Title: RE: Nokia N-Gage ver. 1.5 (the new model)
Post by: KDR_11k on April 17, 2004, 07:58:25 PM
Nokia actually stated they plan on shorter hardware cycles since they come from the phone industry. As long as they maintain binary compatibility this isn't a problem. Why they don't just make all of their phones NGage compatible is beyond me, though. They have the hardware and everything and should try to profit from software licensing, unless they were too stupid to ask for money for that. Or the problem is that game developers can easily develop multiplatform phone games which would have a much larger audience than the NGage market and usually have the same or better hardware.
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