N-Gage Anyone?

[spoon]

Anyone else here looking into getting an N-Gage system?

Just wondering what others thought about it.

http://www.n-gage.com/n-gage/home.html

Sorry if this has already been brought about in another thread.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

I'm waiting until they come out with a machine called N-Fury VIII.

(Say it out loud)

[spoon]

I'm waiting until they come out with a machine called N-Fury VIII.

(Say it out loud)

LOL Took me a min.

[Jasoco]

Only took me a second. Funny though. LOL

Actually, I feel the N-Gage will fail so bad, I'm waiting a year then picking one up really cheap in the bargain bin. It's bound to have a few good games through its short pointless run.

It'll fail for a few reasons, the main one being, aside from trying to compete with Nintendo in the Hand Held Market being a futile attempt, is in order to change the game, you need to TURN IT OFF and open it up. Replace the cart then close it and turn it back on. Sure, the GB needs to be turned off too, but it doesn't have a cell phone attached and it DOESN'T require you open it up. Was it so hard to add a game port and a feature to keep the phone on but allow for swapping? I mean even the Game Boy Player allows you to swap games without turning the GCN off.

Counting down the seconds...

Same with that Play Station Portable.

[Drexel923]

Sorry if this has already been brought about in another thread.

Here you go:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16574&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=ngage

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16040&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=ngage

[EnemyZero]

I agree with jasoco, it will fail miserably, epecially at 300 bucks, thats about 200 more than i think id consider paying for it, i doubt it will last 1 year same with the playstation handheld, when i hear someone mention n-gage or psp all i hear is the sound of a flushing toilet, i dont think i can ever see anything outdoing nintendo.

[Bratwurst]

Not to valiantly defend the system since I don't see it doing too well myself, but that 300 dollar price tag will probably end up cut down when you figure people will probably be getting it with service plans.

Also, anyone check out that Pandemonium video on the N-Gage site? I was pretty surprised by how well that ran. It suggests the system's more than just a Gameboy Advance clone, even if most of its pending library are ports from the system.

[christianscott27]

it looks roughly like early playstation games, at leat going by the tombraider shots. i'll be able to give ya a firsthand review pretty shortly.

[MarioAllStar2600]

I HOPE THE N-GAGE DIES! AND AFTER ITS DEAD, I HOPE IT BURNS IN A FIREY PIT OF FAILURE. I mean really people Nokia makes phones. Leave the handhelds to Nintendo and Sony. Its going to be a failure, I would be embarrased to talk on that thing. Plus It's pretty big. :bad-words:

[scooterb23]

I HOPE THE N-GAGE DIES! AND AFTER ITS DEAD, I HOPE IT BURNS IN A FIREY PIT OF FAILURE. I mean really people Nokia makes phones.

And Nintendo made playing cards, Sony made stereos, and Microsoft made computers...who says Nokia can't make a video game system??

I'll probably be getting one...my happy place for this system is about $150, but I may pony up the $300 since my current cel phone package is up in late October...and I'd feel more idiotic talking on a cel phone that's microscopic than one of these things...

[Boboduo]

I have a feeling the N-GAGE will be a HUGE success much like
It's predecessor the GAME.COM. LOL



(I'll pick one up from a bargain bin in a year
or two.)

[XpOsUrE]

Honestly not me it's just to expensive when it rolls out, and I already have a cell phone, also whats up with having to remove the battary just to put another cartridge in the system ??? Now that don't sound like any portable gameing system I have even seen/used before it.

[ddockery]

I think you guys are missing the point here by quite a bit. Now, I admittedly haven't read much on this, but here my take.

#1 - I REALLY doubt Nokia has any delusions of taking over the handheld games market.

#2 - Yes, I agree taking out the battery to swap games is a pain, BUT I don't think the point is to take many games with you. It's primary use is AS A PHONE. So you leave in one game to amuse yourself if you're stuck out somewhere, so it's not that big of a deal.

#3 - Hardly anyone here falls into the target audience, which is surely the younger crowd (I'd say 16-21 or so) that HAS to have the coolest new phone all of the time. I don't think it'll be anywhere near a success, but I doubt it will fail as badly as everyone expects, and I wouldn't be shocked at all if other models start coming out that also incorporate the games as they become cheaper to manufacture. Lots of kids get the $200 phones already, so what's another $100 to play games as well? Did the PDA/phone get this much shit?

Which company do you have to get phone service through for Nokia anyway?

[davidbrit2]

Plus It's pretty big.

Well, if the little N-Gage shaped brochure I got is actual size, then this sucker is tiny. Seriously. Almost to a fault. The screen is very, very little. Imagine 1/3 the width of a GBA screen, but almost the same height. It's weird. In any case, I'll wait to see it in action before I hate it.

[kevincure]

Here's the worst part: It's a piss-poor cell phone. It looks, for all I can tell, like holding an old-style GBA up to your ear.

Want to look ridiculous, blow $300 and get a system that will be blown out of the water by the PSP next year? The NGage is for you.

[ddockery]

I really do think the N-Gage will flop, but I'm really shocked at all of the closed-mindedness I'm seeing here. It would be a damn miracle that the X-box sold at all if everyone were like this. At least see the thing in action before bashing the hell out of it.

[IGotTheDot]

The US does not have the Cell Phone society that Japan has so it will fail. Most people either buy a game system and get a cell phone for free with service. It will tank and I will be there to pick it and all it's games up red tag.

The battery life sucks and that spells death alone.

[scooterb23]

Oh yeah, one other reason I'll buy one...it has a Super Monkey Ball game...and I love me some Super Monkey Ball

[XpOsUrE]

I think you guys are missing the point here by quite a bit. Now, I admittedly haven't read much on this, but here my take.

#1 - I REALLY doubt Nokia has any delusions of taking over the handheld games market.

#2 - Yes, I agree taking out the battery to swap games is a pain, BUT I don't think the point is to take many games with you. It's primary use is AS A PHONE. So you leave in one game to amuse yourself if you're stuck out somewhere, so it's not that big of a deal.

#3 - Hardly anyone here falls into the target audience, which is surely the younger crowd (I'd say 16-21 or so) that HAS to have the coolest new phone all of the time. I don't think it'll be anywhere near a success, but I doubt it will fail as badly as everyone expects, and I wouldn't be shocked at all if other models start coming out that also incorporate the games as they become cheaper to manufacture. Lots of kids get the $200 phones already, so what's another $100 to play games as well? Did the PDA/phone get this much shit?

Which company do you have to get phone service through for Nokia anyway?

Well your #2 reason don't hold much watar due to the fact that from what I have read in magazines like egm the main purpose of this system/phone is for gameing then the cell phone, but hey I have been wrong before, and I mite very well be again.

[Jasoco]

and Microsoft made computers...
Microsoft never made computers. Ever.

They don't even make the Xbox.

[scooterb23]

Yeah, I meant operating systems...blah blah blah...

You get what I was trying to say...

[Jasoco]

Gotcha.

[EnemyZero]

Want to look ridiculous, blow $300 and get a system that will be blown out of the water by the PSP next year? The NGage is for you. yeahh...psp....that makes me giggle, i cant wait to sony loses all that money on that garbage, nintendo just has too big a fan base with handhelds.

[christianscott27]

checked out a preproduction N-gage today and here are some observations.

size- not nearly what i imagined, its very lightweight and thin, not a pocket bulge, easier to hold than a PDA.

screen- its on the small side like the turbo express but the quality is sharp, i could make out the back muscles on lara croft. not for the near sighted though since you'd look pretty funny.

control- i wish it had the NGP joystick, its an ok button, like the pocket PC navigator button. i only played tomb raider and had some tricky moments since its a severe 3-D game and i'm used to the dual shock style control.

game- again the only game was tomb raider but its every bit as good as the saturn or PSX versions i have, although the game has been "reformatted" to fit into vertical screen dimensions.

the game change thing- i opened it up with no more trouble than a glasses case, no biggie, at least the label will stay mint.

phone- you know whats odd here- you hold the thing sideways and talk into the edge of the ngage, you dont spit on your screen like a treo but it looks kinda funny. i'd assume the phone part will work fine, i mean its a nokia, thats what they do.

going online- this part sounds really good but at this stage it was not up, so i cant say how that will look/work. they did say email and websurfing, but the details are not there. i asked if it would support AIM and got a blank look.

mp3 and radio- well its also an FM radio, for whatever thats worth to ya. the MP3 interface was nice and it holds around 200 songs, no ipod but its a nice bonus on a game system.

so theres no horoscope built in and it lacks some of the PDA features i'd be looking for but it really blows away the GBA. they said plans will be available from AT&T and T-mobile but did not go into price detail. the bluetooth feature is nice, should you want you can connect to other bluetooth devices like maybe a digital camera or apple, of course you could play against another ngage should you ever find yourself in that situation. no word on how the mobile gaming network will work, it has a digital recorder so you can make your own voice msgs or ringtones...alright thats it, not too bad- very good even but yeah at $300 it aint for casuals and kids.

[Keir]

Yeah, but....
you actually like the game.com

;)

[ApolloBoy]

This thing has no chance against the GBA. IMO, Nokia shouldn't have made the N-Gage a video game/cell phone combo. It should have been just a game system. Maybe I'll buy this when it's on clearance.

[christianscott27]

the real question is not if they can beat the gameboy(they cant) but if they can create a market of their own. a $300 device is not made for the pokemon crowd, this looks like an attempt to grab the pocket pc gaming crowd. this is like what the sega genesis did when it debuted against the NES, it went after teenagers where nintendo was owning the younger crowd. the playstation did the same thing years later by bringing in the post college gamers. if nokia lowers the price to under $180 i think it will do really well, if they dont, yeah write it off.

[kevates]

this thing sounds pretty cool to me. if it's a good phone as well as a gaming system, i'll be getting one when i renew my at&t wireless contract.