(keitai-l) Re: N-Gage not selling well?

In the gaming community is spreading the rumor that nokia will drop the 
price of the N-Gage from $299.99 to $199.99 in the States.

Check:
http://ngage.ign.com/articles/455/455878p1.html

Not confirmed yet by Nokia, but these guys are commonly very well 
informed...

Vittorio Nicolardi

-----Original Message-----
From: Giovanni Bertani [mailto:giovanni.bertani@exsense.com]
Sent: Friday, 24 October 2003 11:24
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: N-Gage not selling well?


Hi Petri

I agree with your e-mail it is toot early to see if N-Gage is success or a 
flop.

But anyway

One more doubt is if the N-Gage really goes after the operators
strategy:

1 - Games distribution is mainly physical and not OTA
2 - Operator phone customisation is limited
3 - Multiplayer gaming is mainly bluetooth based OTA is marginal 4 - No 
camera is included so traffic generation will be probably limited 5 - DRM 
OTA content download is not supported

Under this point of view the 3650 or the 3660 are much more in line with 
what the operators want.

So this is a clear move to go after the users not the operators and also is 
going to limit the joined marketing efforts similar to those we can
see
with the 3650 (Tim-Nokia, Wind-Nokia).

Between N-gage and 3650 the hardware differences are also minimal regarding 
mainly the possibility (N-Gage) of using more than one button at the same 
time for game playing and an optimised bluetooth for multiplayers.

Not including hardware graphic acceleration has been a strange choice 
leaving this possibility to the competitors.



Venerd́, 24 Ott 2003, alle 10:44 Europe/Rome, Petri Ojala ha scritto:

>
>>It is too early but any way we have not seen the exitement of the ps2 
>>launch.
>
>The major advantage with PS2 was that it could also run PS1 games.
>People
>didn't need to wait for new games to arrive, they could just buy the unit,
>continue to play the old games while waiting for new PS2 games.
>There was also some life left with the old PS1 so it was more of an upgrade
>than a new system.
>
>GBA SP did the very same thing, it ran all the cames people had bought
>for
>the GBA and fixed the major flaws in the GBA.
>
>All the rest have had a slow start.  Xbox did well only for the people
>who
>really wanted to play Halo, and MS did aggressive pricing much earlier than
>ever before in the game system market.  In fact, even I bought a "cheap"
>Xbox during the christmas campaigns and I still don't have any games for it
>I'd want to play (and it's a poor DVD player).
>
>The gaming system is such a small investment to the consumer compared
>to the
>money spent on games that there's a very clear correlation between the 
>games
>in the homes and sales figures for the system itself.
>
>Petri
>
>
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