Poor sales didn’t kill it. The Nintendo DS and Sony PSP didn’t kill it. The fact most people don’t even know what N-Gage is didn’t kill it. The fact that it just may be Swedish, didn’t kill it. It seems that until hell has officially frozen over, Nokia will keep trying to make the N-Gage a success. Good luck with that!
Find out what new title Nokia is bringing to the N-Gage service after the jump!
Just when N-Gage jokes were starting to get old, Nokia throws us some more ammunition. After re-launching the N-Gage service last year, as software compatible with Nokia’s newer phones instead of a dedicated piece of gaming hardware, not much has happened. At least nothing the gaming community has really taken notice of.
Yesterday Nokia announced that Konami would begin adding some of its mobile games to the N-Gage’s roster. The first game to make the leap will be Metal Gear Solid Mobile, which was the winner of the 2007 International Mobile Gaming Award. The title is expected to arrive in June, hopefully around the same time as MGS4 hits the PS3. No confirmation on how much MGSM will cost, but Nokia did say when they launched the service that full games could be downloaded for $8-$14.
Does anyone care? With the DS still selling like hotcakes and the PSP holding steady (with Skype no less), I just don’t see how any amount of great titles can make the N-Gage service a success. I can see the next generation of portable gaming consoles having full (or near enough) phone capabilities.
Hmmm…Metal Gear Solid Mobile on a N-Gage enabled Nokia phone or Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops on the PSP (which can also make phone calls)? Wow, tough one.
Source: GameSpot
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6 responses so far ↓
1 balaamsafe // May 22, 2008 at 3:18 pm
tbh, i want mgs1 with the graphic quality of two snakes on the psp. but that’s not going to happen, so i’m just going to have to play through portable ops again
2 Keith K // May 22, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Its pretty pathetic that Nokia can get MGS for the N-Gage, but it’s not available on the PSN for PS3/PSP.
(Even though it IS available in Japan. F*ck you Sony! Do it right or don’t do it at all!)
3 Pablos102030 // May 22, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Nokia is Finnish…
4 the 6th degree // May 23, 2008 at 1:58 am
Ha - I had a first gen N-Gage, it actually wasn’t that bad…so long as you dont want to talk on it.
5 GideonB // May 23, 2008 at 4:23 pm
… Nokia, Go make a proper Gaming Console and come back five years later please.
6 Waterh6 // May 24, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Terminated….—->Nokia
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