Ngage sales progress report

FJ0372 wrote:(I already have the original Ngage) but if it is soon to be unsupported I do not see the point.

? What do you mean by "unsupported"? The original and the QD are perfectly compatible. Any game released will work exactly the same on both devices.

I don't think the QD can be doing too well. The only place I have seen it on the high street is in the Link. It was on the Carphone Warehouse coming soon list but now seems to have disappeared from their website altogether.

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Unfortunately, due to the failure of the original N-Gage, many stores are refusing to stock the new N-Gage QD! In other words, EVEN if the N-Gage QD IS a decent phone, it may never take off solely based on the fact that so few places are stocking it! If Nokia want the N-Gage platform to take off, they need to set-up partnerships with retail stores so that N-Gage stuff is more widely available...

Hi. i work for a company called Gamestation and we do sell the N-Gage QD and i think to date we have sold 30 QDs so far since it came out which i think is pretty good since first 1 never really took off.

Not too sure if Nokia had launch expos in your countries, but Nokia did a HUGE N-Gage launch here in Singapore and had full sized newspaper ads about it a month before the thing, and publicized trade-in deals such as trading in any old console to get up to S$100 off the retail price of the QD. Lots of people on one hand had the fat old Gameboy or the out-dated Gameboy Color or Sony Playstation 1 to dispose of, on the other hand the deal made the phone very sweet, plus the big hoo-hah of the launch got everyone excited, so i'd say the QD's doing pretty ok here in Singapore.
I happen to know the boss of this small-time game retailer near my home and he told me he ordered 30 N-gages, every single one was snapped up within a month of the launch. I must stress that he's a small-timer, and only the people living at most 5 blocks around the area know of this shop, so selling 30 in a month sounds like he's doing pretty well on N-gage sales to me.

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I can't remember exactly which one, but it was one of the Asian countries (if I remember correctly, it was either Singapore or Hong Kong...) that the original N-Gage did best in, so it's no surprise that the N-Gage QD is doing well there. In most western countries though, the original N-Gage didn't do very well, which is why there is so little support for the new N-Gage QD in the western world....

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I can't remember exactly which one, but it was one of the Asian countries (if I remember correctly, it was either Singapore or Hong Kong...) that the original N-Gage did best in, so it's no surprise that the N-Gage QD is doing well there. In most western countries though, the original N-Gage didn't do very well, which is why there is so little support for the new N-Gage QD in the western world....

CybaCowboy wrote:Wirelessly posted (Nokia N-Gage: NokiaN-Gage/1.0 (4.03) SymbianOS/6.1 Series60/0.9 Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0)

Unfortunately, due to the failure of the original N-Gage, many stores are refusing to stock the new N-Gage QD! In other words, EVEN if the N-Gage QD IS a decent phone, it may never take off solely based on the fact that so few places are stocking it! If Nokia want the N-Gage platform to take off, they need to set-up partnerships with retail stores so that N-Gage stuff is more widely available...