Nokia To Stake N-Gage Mobile Gaming Future On N-Series, Ovi Platform
- August 29th, 2007
- 2 Comments
N-Gage had some decent games. The main problem with the old platform, of course, was that you had to buy one very specific Choco-Tacoy phone. They only pushed about 3 million of these suckers out the door in the entire world, which meant they were far shy of the terminal velocity needed to create a profitable gaming ecosystem. Well, there are already tens of millions of N-Series phones scattered throughout the world–Not a bad place to start out their new platform, eh? And because some of these N-Series phones have as much as 8-gigs of memory, they are relying on more of a download-and-play style system, rather than the old cartridge-based days of yore. Games will cost from 6 to 10 euros a pop (that’s 90 to 170 dollars, with current exchange rates), and will be available for daily or weekly rental or totally free demo play.
Remarkably, Nokia has kept the N-Gage Arena online gaming service alive this whole time, so N-Gage fanatics should be happy for the update.
And, of course, all of this downloading will come through the brand-new Ovi platform.
Here are a few of the upcoming titles -Peter Ha


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Keith (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Seth - The Dollar/Euro exchange rate certainly sucks - but not quite to that extent
(You wrote: Games will cost from 6 to 10 euros a pop (that’s 90 to 170 dollars, with current exchange rates))
Actually, 6 to 10 euros translates to about 8 to 14 dollars. However, if you’d like to convert some of your dollars into euros, I’m happy to oblige.
Carlos (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I’m sure that he wrote that part about the exchange rate tongue-in-cheek. I am a U.S. citizen living overseas and the exchange rate is hurting me.