Ovi Gaming's Ewan Spence has spent some time with Dance Fabulous, a music game developed for Nokia by Digital Legends in association with Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics!) and upcoming artist Cindy Gomez. Ewan seems rather impressed by this title, and of course as it's a Nokia game it's exclusive to N-Gage-compatible phones.
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Hi Tzer2,
Thanks for the great reviews it gives us a idea of ngage games, Dance Fabulace is what we expect from Ngage. you all do a great job, we enjoy reading your reviews !
Tzer2 have you any idea why nokia is not making any annoncments about their future games or are they not going to release any more ngage games ?
Nokia have released some great games on the Ngage platform, but 80% is not worth it, I remember when ngage -2 was launched Nokia said that they would have all games checked for quality but then snakes happened and the story went on ..........
I wish Ngage games were more superior to symbian games in quality and smoothness, but I was sad when I realised that these games are just Symbian games ?
I love Nokia Phones, and I wished they would really have quality games on ngage, but looking at the current senario I wonder if any Ngage games are even being sold, its difficult for me to trust their statistics they show of their game sales every week and they dont even mention how many games are being sold !!!
Hope to see something Good from Nokia Soon.....
Ashwyn7, like I replied in an earlier comments thread, Nokia has told us nothing about their future plans (absolutely nothing, nothing off the record, nothing on the record).
Personally I think N-Gage's strengths are in the exclusive first party games, the Arena community forums, and the online multiplayer features in games like Reset Gen.
N-Gage's weaknesses IMHO are the limited range of games and the lack of cheaper, simpler titles and freeware.
Based on these strengths and weaknesses, here's my guess for what will happen (and just to make clear, this is 100% guesswork, Nokia hasn't told us anything):
-N-Gage brand could merge into Ovi Store (just like Software Market, Download, MOSH etc have already merged).
-Exclusive first party games could continue, but under a new brand (Ovi Games?). They could be sold through Ovi Store alongside third party stuff (N-Gage demos are already available through Ovi Store).
-N-Gage app could either be merged into the Ovi Store app, or appear with Ovi branding instead.
-N-Gage.com community features like the Arena forum could move to games.ovi.com (the games.ovi.com address currently redirects to n-gage.com).
...that's what I would do if I was in charge of Nokia's games division. I'm not though, so who knows what will actually happen.