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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. ![]()
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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...
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Location: Limbus Patrum
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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
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Location: Norman, OK
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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"
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Location: Arizona
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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.
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Location: New Jersey
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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.
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Location: The Oposite, Inverse of Hell (Wisconsin)
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I wish the N-Gage the best. If it weren't so expensive I would have one. |
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Location: Tulsa, OK
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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??? |
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Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go!!
Location: IN, USA
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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
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Location: Northeastern US - please send help!
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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.
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Location: Silicon Valley, Utah
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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.
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Location: nihilistic freedom
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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... |
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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.
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Location: Limbus Patrum
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Nobody Loves Me
Location: Irish In Madrid
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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.
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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. |
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Location: Tulsa, OK
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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. |
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Location: Austria
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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
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