Gamers, I hope you're sitting down. I'm about to deliver some terrible, terrible news: Nokia is killing the N-Gage gaming service. I'm sure all of you N-Gage fanboys will need a moment to get over the terrible news. Instead of N-Gage Nokia will sell games via its Ovi store for Nokia smartphones.
The original N-Gage, an innovative, but disastrously poorly designed phone with gaming device and MP3 player, was introduced in 2003. After disappointing sales of the device, Nokia changed strategies, dropped the handset and in 2005 began offering N-Gage Network in all its phones for gaming. This apparently has not worked out either, and it seems that the N-Gage name is finally gone from the world forever. May god have mercy on its soul.
Sadly, the N-Gage as a phone really was ahead of its time, offering bluetooth and internet gaming when no one else did and featuring at least the horsepower to run decent games. The problems came in the poor design (you had to take the battery out to insert a cartridge and it was terrible for talking on the phone) the high price ($299!) and a limited selection of games at launch.
Did you have an N-Gage? Did you know anyone who bought one? What did you think?
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NetNapoleon
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE N-GAGE! Are we savages!? haha
delphinus87
yep, nobody cares whatsoever
Nub Salad
I didn't know anything ngage was still around. That was one of those definite flops. And it sucks when someone you know buys an expensive definite flop. You know they are super excited and may have a little bit of buyers remorse, and you don't want to be honest and say, "why the heck did you buy that?" but you have to. Making fun of terrible expensive purchases friends make is no picnic, but it needs to be done. That's the only way they'll learn.
djboogymonster
You're supposed to capitalize God, its a proper noun in that sentence, not an adjective. Sorry, just an stickler for proper English (also a proper noun). As you were. (dangling participle)
Z3R0OneOneSe7en
im surpised it took it this long to do it....
ABXPuPpeT
ooooooh nooooo T_T please dony kill the........whats its called again?..........NGORGGE, Ngop, N-Gage yah that dont kill that thing
Mandal
I haven't even heard of this 'N-gage'.
panzerfist
How do u kill that which has no life?
jxsilicon9
I forgot all about the n-gage. It was a piece of crap. I have the psp and DS.
gamermoney
much like the sega dreamcast...ahead of it's time
The Emperor's Champion
This thing was still going? WTF?
blee427
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Wait, the N-Gage is still around? Oh...well it was.
ProjektX13
Barley?
EliteMastermind101
its about time
Okonoko
I'm going to Sidetalk today in memory.
jtrain47
I had an N-Gage and I really liked how I could easily play games and music on it. The down side was all the glitches it started having and was not properly made to substain beatings lol. But ya had to hold it all funny and had to remember which way and it constantly made phone calls to people
EKG
I did know someone with an N-Gage, ans it was one of the most dreadfully designed pieces of hardware I had EVER seen. You had to hold it on its side to talk on it, and the screen was way too small. It felt uncomfortable and the controls were sticky. It was garbage, but it could have been awesome.
XxgarycorexX
Hahah I just remember when they first came out you needed to hold it like a taco.
Minimoose360
Rest in pieces.
pumathehero
i knew 2 people that had it and we made fun of them for it.
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