In the second part of his look at Nokia's upcoming N-Gage flagship game, Ewan Spence chats further with producer Scott Foe and reflects on how Reset Generation's free embeddable web-based version could attract new people to N-Gage, even people who don't currently own a mobile. Oh yes, and we also get to see those legendary Pac-Man biscuits...
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Hmmm seems to be something worth for...at least it should rocket the ngage 2.0 high up together with the most awaited title "The One". But Nokia should be concentrating on releasing the ngage fix for the N73/N93 - it's been since October 2007 and still nothing from them! This makes one wonder if Nokia's marketing strategy to promote the ngage2 is right!
But Nokia should be concentrating on releasing the ngage fix for the N73/N93 - it's been since October 2007 and still nothing from them!
To be fair, NO phone got N-Gage until February 2008.
But it must be frustrating for owners of N73 and N93 to be waiting longer than others.
Being an N93 owner, I can say that yes, it is frustrating to wait. The N93 is the oldest N-Gage compatible device, so we N93 owners are the ones who have waited the longest for N-Gage, in a sense. And we haven't had a firmware update in 18 months, despite serious bugs in the latest version. I must say I expected more of a Nokia flagship device (which it was when I bought it).
Enfors wrote:Being an N93 owner, I can say that yes, it is frustrating to wait. The N93 is the oldest N-Gage compatible device, so we N93 owners are the ones who have waited the longest for N-Gage, in a sense. And we haven't had a firmware update in 18 months, despite serious bugs in the latest version. I must say I expected more of a Nokia flagship device (which it was when I bought it).
well if you had a phone for that long, you are no good in Nokia's eyes anyway.
they obviously expect everyone to buy new phones every year. which kind of makes sense because a mobile contract is usually 12 months long and you can always just upgrade the last phone you had.
but it also means that if a phone is not fixed from its zillion bugs at release in its first year then you can kiss good bye to its support. there is always going to a be a good excuse to abandon a device and force you to get the latest phone - well, get it for one year and than move on.
ps: yes, my previous phones were indeed NGage classic and an E70 😊 both of which were miles ahead of the other phones AT THAT point in time and got abandoned a lot sooner than I hoped they would be.
well if you had a phone for that long, you are dead for Nokia anyway.
You don't understand, Nokia specifically promised that the N93 and N93i would receive N-Gage, they even featured them in the launch video and continue to feature them in promotional material for N-Gage.
If they go back on that promise then it would be quite humiliating for them, and pretty unfair on anyone who's bought an N93 or N93i specifically to play N-Gage.
but it also means that if a phone is fixed in its first year then you kiss good bye to its support.
That's not true. All Nokia phones (at least all those in the EU) come with a 2 year guarantee.
Nokia abandoned the N93 right when the N93i was to be launched and the N93 didn't even have 1 year of its launch that time! This is a very poor strategy from this company which will result in loss of audience definitely. At least, they should have released a firmware which corrected the bugs before leaving it aside!
Coming back to the ngage, Nokia announced that too soon and made a big fuss about it for nothing - the delay shows that it did not gain enough experience from the first ngage disaster. The small games's catalogue speaks for itself, no other big company (beside EA,Gameloft...) did put their game in it. And the games in the actual catalogue will soon be released, what will remain for the gamers then? It seems that the ngage2.0 will probably lack the gaming support as the ngage1.0 unless Nokia has another strategy to drag the big names companies into the platform. "The One" and "Reset Generation" seem to be Nokia's jokers to prove that the platform can deliver astounding online gaming experience as well as gather a lot of players worldwide. Maybe that they are the games that will make the Ngage2.0 rise up & give the platform its true identity! Nokia has the necessary resource for that and I hope the ngage2.0 doesn't fall because it certainly has the potential of being something great!
krisse:
guarantee covers hardware faults. I was talking about software faults. ones that should not exist in the first place but can be fixed by firmware updates. and sometimes they are fixed, sometimes they aren't . what I said about no more support I meant no more firmware updates, software fixes.
I know I went a bit over the top with the previous comment, but you have to admit there is no nokia phone out there which does perfectly what it is capable doing. there always are issues ranging from minor calendar bugs, camera glitches to serious memory leaks and regular freezes. those things are the same for all E70s or N93s or dozens of other phones so guarantee won't cover them.
what I would love to see is firmwares coming out to improve things or introduce new features and not to fix problems. there shouldn't be problems. if there are any, the phone is not ready to be released. it's that simple.
but I think we are going off topic with this😊
actually it's on topic if you considered that NGage2 (as buggy phones) was released a lot earlier than it should have been. it should be available for all the phones that are capable running the games from the start with a decent number of launch titles and not just a bunch of recycled java games from Gameloft.