SALvation
10-21-2003, 03:23 AM
Less than 5,000 units of Nokia N-Gage hardware were sold in the United States in the system's first week of release, according to independent research firm Arcadia Research. That figure takes into account all retail locations that sold the N-Gage, including both videogame specialty retailers and cellular phone retailers.
Nokia has not released official figures regarding how many N-Gages were shipped to retail, or how many pre-orders were placed by customers in advance. However, Arcadia's figures indicate that fewer consumers purchased N-Gages than placed pre-orders for the $299 "mobile gaming deck," which combines a cellular phone, videogame player, MP3 player, and PDA.
So wait...people don't want to go through a five step process that takes a couple of minutes to load a game...or hold the phone sideways to talk...OR want to play some of the worst games of the mid-90's with blurred graphics and laughable controls?!?
You gotta love it when a company is first introduced to logic.
Nokia has not released official figures regarding how many N-Gages were shipped to retail, or how many pre-orders were placed by customers in advance. However, Arcadia's figures indicate that fewer consumers purchased N-Gages than placed pre-orders for the $299 "mobile gaming deck," which combines a cellular phone, videogame player, MP3 player, and PDA.
So wait...people don't want to go through a five step process that takes a couple of minutes to load a game...or hold the phone sideways to talk...OR want to play some of the worst games of the mid-90's with blurred graphics and laughable controls?!?
You gotta love it when a company is first introduced to logic.