Digital Chocolate, a well known mobile and web games developer, has announced that its products have been downloaded from the Ovi Store more than 4 million times. To celebrate the announcement Digital Chocolate is, in a limited number of European countries, making five of its game titles available for free via the Ovi Store during April and May (variants of Tower Bloxx, Rollercoaster Rush, Crazy Penguin Party and Dictator Defense). Read on for further details and links.
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LOL, if you believe people who post on AAS, Ovi store is broken and unusable and not allowing developers any revenue. So there cannot possibly have been 4 million downloads of these apps at �3 or �4 each. Shurely shome mishtake!
Or they could be wrong...... again.
Of course you're wrong. In fact, you're also an idiot.
First of all, what you are saying is totally untrue and complete bullshit.
Ovi Store works just fine. Have you even tried it lately? Guess not.
Several developers have reported success with with their products on Ovi Store - Digital Chocolate, Polarbit, HeroCraft....hell even Chillingo (yes, those famous on the iPhone).
Can't beat the facts, but of course an idiot wouldn't know that....
I am sure people from other countries have contributed towards that figure as well... How about some love there as well??? 😊
Unregistered #2, you may have misread Unregistered #1 and/or missed his sarcasm.. 😊
Unregistered wrote:Of course you're wrong. In fact, you're also an idiot. First of all, what you are saying is totally untrue and complete bullshit.
Ovi Store works just fine. Have you even tried it lately? Guess not.
Several developers have reported success with with their products on Ovi Store - Digital Chocolate, Polarbit, HeroCraft....hell even Chillingo (yes, those famous on the iPhone).
Can't beat the facts, but of course an idiot wouldn't know that....
I think you've totally misunderstood what the 1st unregistered actually meant 😉
BUT...BUT...BUT...all the blogs and voices and commenters on the net say that Ovi Store is crap and doesn't work and has no download and iPhone's better and Android's the future, and Nokia's dead, and S60's crap, and...and...and....
Oh dear, Oh dear, WHY do we listen to any of the naysayers, ever? They're just a bunch of bitter ignoramuses quite frankly.
I think we all know, really and truly, in our heart of hearts, that iPhone will always remain a very minority platform, Android is barely more than hype and hope and will not have much of a future (it's already a fragmented semi-failure), and the future is indeed Symbian's (which trounces other platforms on every front by miles, apart from UI which is only very slightly behind currently and will soon be better).
The future's bright, the future's Symbian (/Nokia) 😊
Somebody get these figures (and more importantly the S60 Market share figures) infront of the BBC. Am I the only one who is incenced that they are planning to develop free apps for iPhone, Blackberry, and Android? Just about every smartphone platform apart from the most widely used platform in the UK!
Sheesh! Only for UK that is why Nokia itself never got a foot hold at the American market.
Unregistered wrote:Sheesh! Only for UK that is why Nokia itself never got a foot hold at the American market.
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Probably some petty legal reason it has not gone beyond europe.
Unregistered wrote:Sheesh! Only for UK that is why Nokia itself never got a foot hold at the American market.
It's not a Nokia decision it's a Digital Chocolate decision, and they are a San Mateo, California based company.
Good news for some. I've not taken advantage of this because I don't do games but well done Digital Chocolate. $20 million of business through the Ovi store. Good work.
How many of these 4 million downloads were paid-for?
Good on them.. I must admit, Despite being written in Java, Digital chocolate does make some pretty inventive games.
Can you please re-write some as native binaries? I want the 3D version of Rollercoaster rush like the iphone damn it.. (although the 2D one is pretty fun still).
Is it just me, or are there only 4 titles listed, not 5?
Ah, the fifth one is Nightclub Fever (the link in the article is broken).
Well, I was speaking in general why Nokia didn't get a foot hold on the American market which is true -- they plug some of their flagship stores in some states, I've never seen a Nokia ad on American television. It's not Digital Chocolate, but Nokia itself.
To be honest, look at the Apple iPhone. It was a hit, it got all the cool stuff, the cool games. Man, they even have the term "iPhone gaming." Now they're rolling over iPhone OS 4.0 which has this social gaming thing similar to N-Gage which Nokia has before. Maybe Nokia is getting backwards?
Don't get me wrong. I still like Nokia. In fact, I am using my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and loving it, but there is that technology itch that you somehow get irritated and has to scratch it sometimes.
To the guy that congratulates the $20million in sales? WTF, don't you realize that 90% of those downloads, if not more, are for Demos?
To the unregistered above,WTF,there is no Demo version in the Ovi store,you need to pay,download,install then play. Some companies offer trail versions of there applications thought but am not sure about Games.
Does that count re-downloads?
bchliu wrote:Good on them.. I must admit, Despite being written in Java, Digital chocolate does make some pretty inventive games.Can you please re-write some as native binaries? I want the 3D version of Rollercoaster rush like the iphone damn it.. (although the 2D one is pretty fun still).
Yeah, and make it as a SIS file. Even Nokia 5800 and N97 without 3D hardware acceleration can run it. C'mon, Quake 1 even runs on a 66Mhz PC without 3D hardware and worse yet was Duke Nukem 3D.
Stop jamming us with Java, d@mmit!!