I think it's brilliant. The video game industry is one of the fastest growing and most profitable out there. Just like the unreal engine tech is the best for building console game, the n-gage platform is the best platform for games on cell phones. If all they are doing is incorporating it into their existing phones, which it looks like they are, they can't go wrong. The profit will be in the game sales and after market gear vs. the actual phone

a phone is to call!

i hope this work fine with n-gage coming back to gaming.

This isn't goign to work, Its probably just Java games again. Which will work on any phone, so Why would I use an N-Gage?

http://www.sidetalkin.com/page-qd.html

This will fail again. The screen of a cell phone is way to small to play games like fifa. They're just going to make cell phone games basically, no new system.

N-Gage.... what the Hell is it?! games on mobiles... ok Nokia, is the joke over yet?

Hey, give them a break. This is smart. Mobile gaming is huge and makes a lot of money, though the N-Gage was a failure, because it failed as a phone, and wasn't a great game player. Now, the N-Gage software will run on good phones, which will accommodate mobile gaming, but the phones won't be made with ONLY games in mind.

Dear Nokia,

Give up.

However, if you still wish to throw money away, I will gladly take it. Love,
Your friends at Gamespot

N-Gage = beating a dead horse again and again.

it looks pretty cool; for a phone anyways. i wouldn't buy it for games alone.

I just absolutely can't wait...I wish you could type in a sarcastic tone...

MOBILE GAMES ARE THE FUTURE! SRSLY!

i hate this phones that include mp3 and stuff but now games. this is ridiculous. if i wanted a mobile game system i would just use my psp. if i wanted to hear my music that is why i bought my ipod.

Forget N-Gage where are my Zune games!

Playing Mobile games = fail.

!!CONGRATULATION!! to all you N-gage fanboys

Rise of the living dead!

In a completely different form that too.

Well it cost them almost nothing and its going on existing phones which are SO popular in Germany and stuff. Great for casual gamers that dont want an extra piece of hardware.

theres just no way any mobile phone is going to compare to a DS or PSP... didnt they learn their lesson?

It's a great looking design, but god knows if it will succeed.

Nokia's biggest problem is they are no game company, don't have the contents and game consoles. Look at Sony E3 conference, GOW and MGS are coming to Sony mobile phone; PS3 is like a hub for their mobile devices where gamers can log in and out of PS3 using Wifi, download game, music and files. This bypass expensive 3G networking fees. ==============================================
The demo of Sony phone interaction with PS3 @home. In one stroke, Sony annihilate Nokia game plan before they even started.
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Nokia's thinking is like this time, they put N-gage as a software platform on exist mobile hardware. Cost Nokia almost nothing. Nokia think they can't loose. Good luck *v*

Loved my N-Gage and still use it. "Side talkin" doesn't bother me cause my hands are so big and I can access everything without looking at the screen. Had a smaller phone recently and was always afraid id drop the damn thing cause they're so small and it would be useless. N-Gage can take quite the pounding though. Doesn't sound like I'll be able to use my old games on these new phones.

just another handheld for the DS to slaughter, sorry nokia myou make great phones but leave handheld and gaming in general to the big boys like Nintendo

Well, you guys just don't know how big the market is for mobile games. Go look at some financial reports for EA Mobile, Gameloft, and others. THEN try to come back here and say that it's useless, failing, and so on. It's ANYTHING BUT. As for those of you who don't know how to read, guess it has to be repeated again : N-Gage is now a SOFTWARE PLATFORM more akin to Xbox Live. NOT a HARDWARE DEVICE. Geez !!!!

N-gage will fail miserably nokia...give it up and leave hand helds to the Pros.

I'll keep playing the DS and PSP. Cell phones are awesome, and they CAN have really fun, good looking, well made games on them. But they shouldn't be handled this way. Games should be developed from the ground up to work, look, & play well on a phone. I hate the N-Gage. Nokia have made some good phones though, they just suck at putting games on them.

Woa, this is weird. I was just listening to the Hotspot where they were talking about how bad the N-gage was.

I feel soooo happy

why???

Because people dont look stupid using regular cell phones.....(you do).

give it up nokia...

Aww, I wanted to be all sidetalkin'.

Seriously, there's persistinant, and there's just retarded.

Noooooooooo!

worthless

i still have the original ngage which i have replaced with the N95 but i have to say the ngage suffered from lack of creative developers and hence made me use it as nothing more than a phone and an mp3 player. i must say, its a very good mp3 player and even gives better sound than my N95. anyway, with a ps2, xbox, psp, ds and a wii already in my room and an xbox 360 to join them soon with halo 3, i doubt ill have time to pay any attention to ngage games in the near future. they should forget about it unless some decent games are coming for the ngage.

Face it. The N-Gage failed. Why can't you understand that Nokia?

At least it looks like an I-phone ripoff rather than a taco this time.

At least it was better than the Nintendo Virtual Boy if anybody remembers that.

I still say yay! Ngage was a great system. I will so get this!

god ngage sucked! my thumbed acked for 1 week after i played a game for just 1 hour.

This is the single funniest thing I have read... ever.

N-Gage failed because you had to keep an old phone in one of the fastest moving sub-industries of the technology world. This might succeed considering that a) their market share has increased and b) a LOT more people will have access to N-Gage stuff considering that new Nokias are very popular.

Have to give them credit...they simply wont give up no matter how much this project fails.

The N-gage platform now is not what it was when Nokia attempted the gaming market with the original N-gage in 2003. The N-gage platform now is just that, a platform. It's a gaming service for compatible phones, namely the N-series. It's basically a better and more refined version of downloading and playing java games for any java enabled phone. The N81 mentioned in the article is a phone, not a new N-gage hardware. So if you're thinking that Nokia is just simply releasing a new n-gage, you're wrong.

The concept could work, it's not requiring for users to by certain type of hardware (a la, the sidetalkin' N-gage), instead it creates a platform that can run on a variety of cell phones. Seeing almost everyone now has cell phones, it's a market that is already established and ready to go. My only gripe is that they are currently limiting the new N-gage platform to just Nokia devices, and I know that in the US, not too many people have or want Nokia cell phones right now; if they were to allow the platform to span across a variety of cell phones, it would probably be a slam dunk.

ROFL!!!!!!!!! N-Gage? More like N-Crap. This will CRASH AND BURN just like the TWo other incarnations of N-Crap. Why does Nokia even try? It is just a fat waste of money. And to yboucher: N-Crap did horribly in Europe and Asia too, both times it came out. They did not buy just like we Americans did not buy it. It is crap, pure and simple.

sounds like a regular gaming service on a phone.

To all of you saying "people don't even have those devices in the US", stop being so damn self-centered is what I say. Nokia (and any other company) is going where the money is. If Americans are too cheap to get high-end phones, they'll definitely be too cheap to buy into this new platform as well. You can bet that this is mostly targeted at Europe and Asia.

Furthermore, it's no coincidence that this news is released at the end of GDC China (which i attended in the past 3 days). But hey, how come Gamespot didn't even MENTION there WAS a GDC taking place in China right now as we speak ? It's funny enough, considering Nokia, Sega, EA, Ubisoft, Epic, Nvidia, were all there, and I'm not even mentioning how much % of the games you play are actually coded and textured in China without you knowing it.

But oh well, I guess it always all comes back to self-centeredness.

they forgot to mention one important fact so let me rewrite the first sentence of this thread. "Mobile-phone maker Nokia has revealed plans to reengage N-Gage, a gaming platform that it originally launched in 2003, and fail miserably next year."