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Moskie 10-22-2003 03:30 PM

Anyone bothered to get an N-Gage?
 
As I think anyone with a clue expected, the N-Gage appears to have fallen flat on its face. I really have no sympaties for Nokia, it completely seems like they've had no idea what the hell they were doing right from the start.

I glanced at some reviews for the games so far, and they're pretty damn bad. Gamespot gave the Bust-a-Move game a 1.4 out of 10. Seriously, you'd have to try really hard to screw up Bust-A-Move.

And there's already rumors about a price drop, one week after it's been released.

So, anyone actually own one? Personally, I'm looking forward to watching this thing die a slow death. :D

Spinach_Indeed 10-22-2003 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Moskie
Personally, I looking forward to watching this thing die a slow death. :D

Heheh. Me too. Makes me Harken back to the days of the Jaguar. They spent a buttload of money on advertising. Everytime I turn around I see a Ad for N-Gage. Too bad it was all in Vain though...

TrogDor 10-22-2003 06:22 PM

Ha! The funniest thing is watching someone trying to talk on one of those things. They look like a total dork.

Nimbletoe 10-22-2003 06:24 PM

Those have to be one of the most overpriced pieces of crap on the technology market. Just look at it!

Prophecy 10-22-2003 06:33 PM

I wonder how much money has be lost on this crappy handheld gaming phone?
And for God's sake why didn't the designers figure out taking the batteries out to put a game in is a bad thing???

Also its sad that all the games are crappy ports of PSone games...

Oh, and I have to post this link

Nokia says N-Gage launch a success
http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6077184.html

IckUber 10-22-2003 06:47 PM

It's the stupidist thing in the fucking world. I second watching them die a slow painfull death, dragging the whole nokia name with it.

"According to Gamesindustry.biz, "The first official statement from Nokia on the launch of its N-Gage game deck has claimed that the device is sold out at many retailers following a 'very positive' consumer response." However, 1UP have posted US sales figures which reveal "...less than 5,000 units of Nokia N-Gage hardware were sold in the United States in the system's first week of release"

battlemouth 10-22-2003 09:20 PM

i think its going to be a big chunk of cellular crap, why not just buy a GBA and a cell phone?

The Geek 10-23-2003 11:00 AM

I'd like to meet a Nokia executive that was on the team for this thing and say "Seriously, what the hell were you thinking?"

spived2 10-23-2003 11:40 AM

Personally I'm waiting for the new one from sony. I think it's called the psp or something like that, but it's supposed to have an mp3 player, video player, and some other good stuff. Theres also a pda out there that has a nice large screen on it and plays beautiful 3d games like doom2 and others.

seretogis 10-23-2003 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Spinach_Indeed
Heheh. Me too. Makes me Harken back to the days of the Jaguar. They spent a buttload of money on advertising. Everytime I turn around I see a Ad for N-Gage. Too bad it was all in Vain though...
The Jaguar was actually an impressive console, though. It was far more advanced than the SNES or Genesis was.

Church 10-23-2003 07:39 PM

Heh, this reminds me of Dreamcast. That thing lasted a year or two, maybe. But this N-Gage thing, when I first saw it, it had potential, but now it just looks sad. I will buy one for my enemies, and one for myself so I can put it in the microwave.

jerseyboy 10-23-2003 08:58 PM

This is thing is like that VR game system ninentendo tried to introduce way back when. The one that was only in black and red.

guthmund 10-23-2003 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by spived2
Personally I'm waiting for the new one from sony. I think it's called the psp or something like that, but it's supposed to have an mp3 player, video player, and some other good stuff. Theres also a pda out there that has a nice large screen on it and plays beautiful 3d games like doom2 and others.
It's also supposed to cook your microwave popcorn, do the dishes and massage your feet after a long day....*scoff

I'll believe it when I see it and right now....I ain't seeing it :)

Neato 10-23-2003 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jerseyboy
This is thing is like that VR game system ninentendo tried to introduce way back when. The one that was only in black and red.
The Virtual Boy. I own one. It rocks.

I wish the N-Gage the best. If it weren't so expensive I would have one.

CyCo PL 10-23-2003 11:52 PM

I'm definitely going to get a Sony PSP once that's out... Finally a portable game console that uses CD-type media! Hopefully it has some kind of skip-protection though... It would be terrible if it didn't.

Nokia made the N-gage wrong. The made it as a phone that could be used as a game console, they should have done the opposite. Honestly, I think they should have taken the phone option out completely and just left in the bluetooth networking and maybe the online gameplay. And made the screen way bigger and horizontal instead of vertical. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???

IckUber 10-24-2003 12:10 AM

You see cyco, they WERE NOT THINKING. Stupid idiots.

GakFace 10-24-2003 02:45 AM

I would HATE to talk on that thing, shit the GameBoy SP looks more like a phone than the N-Gage does. I like how Penny Arcade just constantly laughed at it :).. The day of the launch, Gabe posted a link to the article, what did the hyper link say? And I quote:
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

jools 10-24-2003 03:31 AM

Heh. I bet some heads will get chopped at the Nokia HQ.

mrquackers 10-24-2003 07:04 AM

I've got two. But for the record, I didn't pay for 'em. They were demo units given to me for evaluation.

I can say with no hesitation that every criticism you've heard is correct. The N-gage has some great features - like the MP3 player and the FM radio. And the phone is very high quality. But as a gaming device it blows. I've never seen a device of any sort with this many design flaws.

I've also got one of the Tapwave Zodiacs in hand (well, actually, it's sitting over to my right at the moment). It's not perfect, but so far I'm very impressed. Great Palm functionality. Great game functionality.

Destrox 10-24-2003 08:39 AM

If you read the articles in EGM and a few other gaming mags, you'll see just how big of a piece of shit this really is.

Xiangsu 10-24-2003 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by SlickPrick
Heh, this reminds me of Dreamcast. That thing lasted a year or two, maybe. But this N-Gage thing, when I first saw it, it had potential, but now it just looks sad. I will buy one for my enemies, and one for myself so I can put it in the microwave.
The dreamcast had some awesome games and you shouldn't judge it on sales alone. Trust me, the N-Gage is going to go down but not with glory like the Dreamcast.

floonine 10-24-2003 11:55 AM

I have to agree with ya, the Dreamcast had a lot of potential and had some frigin awesome games associated with it, soul calibur being one, and it was one of the launch titles, dammit.

There is a penny-arcade article where tycho talks to an n-gage rep, and the guy says that the n-gage is different because it is directed toward a more mature audience than the game boy advanced. That guy needs to go back to his public relations classes if he thinks that is a good way to sell something to the audience that most likely owns and enjoys the gameboy.

IckUber 10-24-2003 01:33 PM

Here is a good one.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20030822l.gif


Here is another good one!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20031008l.gif

nothingx 10-24-2003 04:05 PM

Wow, this is hilarious. I never knew so many people hated the N-gage. Personally, I never even thought about it cause it never reached my "radar screen". I took one look at it and thought, that looks lame... and hadn't thought about it since.

Now I see on Gamestop that they've started cutting prices in half. Wonder how they're selling...

aarchaon 10-24-2003 05:45 PM

i have a friend who bought a N-Gage and he can't even send text messages with it, and the game he got with it, "Super Monkey Ball" sucks ass because
1. u cant really see where you are going and
2. ITS A GODDAMN MONKEY IN A BALL! SERIOUSLY!!!

i guess the good points of it are u can play music and videos but it is a horribly mis-shapen blob of plastic that when u talk on it u look like u have a frisbee stuck in your head.

Prophecy 10-24-2003 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Neato
The Virtual Boy. I own one. It rocks.

I wish the N-Gage the best. If it weren't so expensive I would have one.

Well if your serious about that Nokia just launched a "Halloween promotion" dropped the price of the N-Gage by $100 at EBgames and Gamestop. :lol:

http://www.gamespot.com/ngage/news/news_6077311.html

IckUber 10-25-2003 01:04 AM

FUCK THE NGAGE THAT MOTHER CUCKer.














SORRRY IM DRUNK< BUT I STILKL HATE THE NGAGE

Magpie0001 10-25-2003 03:32 AM

I played one the other day,
I had a lash off Tomb Raider & I gotta say the screen is a joke, Its so fucking small. I have no idea what they were thinking when they decided to make it so small & vertical? WTF?? Its absolute suicide.
Good luck Nokia, youre gonna need it.

WhoaitsZ 10-25-2003 01:21 PM

BWUAAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

the n-gage price has been cut as low as $100!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH

good god. on a movie scale this motherfucker left IMAX to simply come on once on normal tv!

what a blow...... it's been out what one month? from $300 to $100? hahaahaa

thanks nokia. now we know for fact that money neither buys oneself intelligence or good ideas!

i can't quit laughing... heh

PS the dreamcast was never my favorite system but it was still a wonderful machine.

NeverBorn 10-25-2003 06:05 PM

I tried it once..I couldn't even get the damn game to load..wtf

yellowgowild 10-25-2003 09:27 PM

Wtf were they thinking when they made the screen VERTICAL??

IckUber 10-26-2003 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by yellowgowild
Wtf were they thinking when they made the screen VERTICAL??
Thats the thing yellow gold, they WERNT THINKGINGG!

Porkchop 10-26-2003 01:30 AM

Tried one in a local game store. Not surprised sales a poor at the minute. May pick up with people getting them on contract.

CyCo PL 10-26-2003 09:47 AM

100 bucks is awfully tempting though, considering I don't have a cellphone... still gotta pay for service though, and I don't really use the phone much.

Edit: heh, nevermind... I thought I saw someone say that it dropped TO $100, not BY $100. 200 dollars is still way way too much for this piece of shit.

CBlend 10-26-2003 06:38 PM

"Halloween" promotion? HA!

More like a "Please, buy this, we're begging you!" promotion :)

Anyone considering the N-Gage...Please, buy a Game Boy Advance if you don't have one. You can't go wrong with the GBA.

cradeg 10-27-2003 06:24 AM

i currently own a nokia 3300 music phone .. i love to listen to my best mp3s when i have to walk the dog or so, but i doubt that the ngage will be the big deal

flecktone4 10-27-2003 09:36 PM

never found it appealing... esp having to take off the back to change the cartridge...

stupid as the gameboy sp with no headfone socket

WireX 10-28-2003 07:34 PM

i laughed when I asked the EB guys how many they had sold, 0, and apparently I was the first person to even inquire about it.

weasel519 10-29-2003 12:34 PM

I saw a guy today in school with one. First i thought he was listening to a taco but lo and behold it was an Ngage

YaWhateva 10-29-2003 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by weasel519
I saw a guy today in school with one. First i thought he was listening to a taco but lo and behold it was an Ngage
mmmmm...taco.


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