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N-Gage = Flop |
specialk
Joined: Jun 17, 2003
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"Independent market research firm Arcadia Research has released sales figures for Nokias N-Gage mobile phone/games console in the US. The disappointing figures show sales of under 5,000 units including both video game and mobile phone retailers.
Nokia officials have still not released official figures of their own, with the only previous sales results being a figure of below 500 for video games retailers in the UK. Figures for this weeks sales are rumoured to be as low as 360 units in that country." |
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MaThIbUs
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Muahahahaha :evil:
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BOSSHOGG
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Haha! I see the expensive advertising campaign was well worth the few hundred sales :-D
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kev.morris
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Shame
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BOSSHOGG
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Seeing tomb raider in 3d looking so good on such a small device was good, but still. . . . . . Haha!
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Andy.
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On 2003-10-21 22:25:39, BOSSHOGG wrote:
Haha! I see the expensive advertising campaign was well worth the few hundred sales 
you mean this ad
http://mobile.esato.com/viewtopic.php?topic=40637&forum=12 |
BOSSHOGG
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I'm on wap so can't check that link, well i can by editing a bookmark, but can't be bothered. But in the uk the be is on a lot, and all the shops have given it plenty of floor space. Which is pretty expensive.
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gatevital
Joined: Dec 01, 2002
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I think that ceefax said that the sales figuers are for game shops only and not mobile phone shops (bbc ceefax page 553)
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TheSlayer
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The one good thing about the Ngage is that it can use mp3s as ringtones.... |
lesneo
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P900 will be the first SE phone to use mp3 as ringtone... be patient... |
DragonEye
Joined: Sep 26, 2002
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mp3.. and wav whats' the diff?
yeah they're bigger but you only need 15 sec's anyways....
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Ludwig
Joined: Sep 03, 2003
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it dont like it..
and its very hard to play on it(atleast tomb raider)
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kenzoden
Joined: Oct 21, 2003
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Unfortunate news for Nokia I guess.
Still I doubt if they really put all their eggs into one basket though. From their past experiences with "gamepad" phones (5510, 3300), they would know it would be a risk going into the gaming arena against giants like Nintendo and Sony.
Not to mention, with less than 10 games at launch, it's unlikely to make much waves.
To make things worse, even casual mobile users know that in less than a year, there'll surely be some upgraded version of the NGage. With 6600, 3660, 3620 (latter 2 upgrades to 3650) sporting an improved Series 60 interface and 65K TFT display, it sure seems likely an improved NGage is in the pipelines...
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sn3ipen
Joined: Aug 18, 2003
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Did you guyz know that Nokia is saying that N-gage is outsold in stores in england, thats truth But they forget to say that its whas wherry few n-gage in each stores, cuz the stores dont belive thatN-gage is going to a big sucsessor so they wont take in more phones than necesary.  |
ac
Joined: Feb 09, 2003
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N-gage will most proabably be a flop. The 3300 already is a flop. But as long as Nokia maintains its leadership position, it won't be bothered by such failures.
Even  has had its share of problems...
T610... hissing and bluetooth headset support
Z600... wap/gprs browser problems |
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Posted: 2003-10-21 22:16
