I was reading about the Playstation phone the other day and i was thinking, Nokia should revive the N-Gage brand and get big game companies to start releasing serious games to the N900 and upcoming MeeGo based gamephones and general use devices by Nokia. Make a N-Gage store to sell those games directly to owners of the devices, get a little commission for the sales (or rent for hosting the games or whatever), and control the quality of the games so being associated with the N-Gage brand is considered a badge of honor (while not closing the devices to homebrew and niche games).

Also, they should release a kickass N-Gage branded, MeeGo based, gamephone, analog inputs (yes, plural), plenty of ergonomic buttons etc; but preferably keeping the system similar enough to the N900 to allow the same games to be played on it as well (though in some cases it would probably be with slightly less details or not so ideal performance, and somewhat more awkward controls, that is if not using external input devices like bluetooth game controllers etc)



Btw, regarding buttons, don't stick with just the thumb, add some buttons behind so the remaining fingers need not to be idle just gripping.


ps:make sure to instruct the game companies to use open standards, let people install the games they legally acquire on devices by other brands that respect standards, this will be an added stimulus to make sure Nokia devices will be made with intention of being better than the competition increasing the odds Nokia fanboys will get superior hardware at a competitive price, also of course making Nokia look better in the eyes of the general consumer.




pps:don't screw it up, Nokia can't afford to give more reasons for once faithful customers to be disappointed with them

C'mon, you know deep down you want a new side talkin' taco.

N-Gage is already tainted by 2 miserably failed attempts.

If Nokia could not succeed in this area when it's only competition was the Gameboy what chance does it have now that there is the almighty DS plus Sony PSP, PSP Phone, iphone and ipod touch and also games on android market? No chance. The N Gage would just die a horrible and painful death.

n gage is dead i mean really dead.and noone wants a zombie game platform.
but some good hq 3d games like gameloft ones could be a good start....

Yeah then make some Q-Gage... Derived from QT generation

they tried just that with the n95, i dont have any figures or facts about it, but despite the games being relatively good it doesnt seem to have been a huge success.

That's because it's pretty limited... If you only know how many countries can't buy N-Gage. Plus also it's all because of BinPDA
No profit = No Support = No N-Gage
And admit it. Average people won't know what's N-Gage unless they have already bought the phone...
And last... Battery issues You bought a phone you don't want it to loose battery life always because of gaming