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2009-08-30 , 10:42
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All games for the N-Gage phones were simply Java applications put on carts.
Not really. They were native S60 aplications (at least so I remember). Some of them, for example Pathway to Glory, were actually really good games that were designed based on the strengths of the phone (multiplayer through gprs, controls that were fitted to match the phones keys and so on). The problem was that most of the games were really bad... And there was also the sidetalking issue...

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The N-Gage brand became an Xbox Live style gaming platform which apparently almost no one uses. Nokia also let go their entire Canadian N-Gage division, all of whom were working on games for the platform.

As far as I know, N-Gage is dead in the water.
But the online infrastructure is still there.

I think that Nokia needs to integrate the platform more solidly to their OVI-portal and new phones and also get some new good games available. The potential is huge: there are tens of millions of S60 phones on the world and there will be at least millions of Maemo-phones.
 

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Its more about waiting for Ngage to have minimum hardware settings. Right now, the hardware is too broad. But Ngage is NOT dead
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why n-gage games are not for sell also in ovi store?

N-gage as a gaming platform, to connect users and let gamers play over the network, or review games, or send messages one to another and friend invitations, is a powerful gaming platform.

The titles are also very good lately. Very good games.
 
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Originally Posted by Architengi View Post
N-Gage needs to be part of Maemo as well. It is a very good community of gamers/players, which can be used as is because it is hard to create a new gaming community - just for playing in the network, reviews, etc.

To create a new community of gamers it takes at least 1-2 years. iPhone now has its community of gamers like XBox and PS3 and Wii do. N-Gage already exists. If Nokia decides to not diversify N-Gage on Maemo platform, they do a big mistake, because N-Gage is a brand name, well known in Symbian community. And Nokia actually bought N-Gage - another company. Hope they will not close N-Gage and leave only Ovi Gaming and Maemo Gaming.
the OP is correct, nokia needs commercial games if it wants to compete with the iphone/istore.

given the identical hardware (Omap3) shared with the 3GS they would be stupid not to permit commercial games developers to easily port their games to the n900.

if maemo5 lacks DRM which permits a commercial app-store then it needs to get one soon.
 
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Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
Its more about waiting for Ngage to have minimum hardware settings. Right now, the hardware is too broad. But Ngage is NOT dead
i would suggest the Omap3 used in the n900.

it has the immense advantage that it is common to the iphone 3GS and Palm Pre, nothing like common hardware for making app porting as easy as possible.
 
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Originally Posted by Architengi View Post
why n-gage games are not for sell also in ovi store?

N-gage as a gaming platform, to connect users and let gamers play over the network, or review games, or send messages one to another and friend invitations, is a powerful gaming platform.

The titles are also very good lately. Very good games.
this would be the most sensible solution; to roll the ngage platform into the Ovi store, then release an Ovi client for the n900.
 
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2009-08-31 , 19:20
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Originally Posted by REMFwhoopitydo View Post
the OP is correct, nokia needs commercial games if it wants to compete with the iphone/istore.

given the identical hardware (Omap3) shared with the 3GS they would be stupid not to permit commercial games developers to easily port their games to the n900.

if maemo5 lacks DRM which permits a commercial app-store then it needs to get one soon.

N97, a touch device with wode screen and keyboard, mostly landscape oriented for other applications, like N900 is, has the N-Gage client.

Because N-Gage is written in C++ (the N-Gage service was bought by Nokia from other gaming company), it will be a very smart move to port N-Gage platform to Maemo and to integrate it into OVI as a new category.


Looking at the POLL in this_thread, most of the people choosed to have N-Gage, followed by MS Office applications. I believe Nokia needs to provide N-Gage to N900 Maemo devices, because there is a big customer demand for it.
 
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just so ppl know you can already get n-gage game demos from the ovi store, they have in game purchase methods to unlock to full game,
of course you still need the n-gage client installed before hand to run the games but the merge you talk about seems to already be happening
 
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just so ppl know you can already get n-gage game demos from the ovi store, they have in game purchase methods to unlock to full game,
of course you still need the n-gage client installed before hand to run the games but the merge you talk about seems to already be happening
So you can buy a N-Gage game from Ovi Store from the Games category? Didn't try that. And it states in the comments that is a N-Gage game and you need N-Gage to run it? Not sure about the second part, because N-Gage games are native s60 applications or Java applications, so they might run even without N-Gage. But having N-Gage is good because of the community of users, not only for payment method through N-Gage.
 
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in theory the games would work without n-gage app yes, but b/c the xbox live like system you need n-gage client for your achievments, loggng in to your profile, chatting with friends etc, so the way they set it up means you can only launch games within the app, but i'm guessing it would need very little modification to run games without it, matter in fact during open beta before launch i think some one modified games and did it
the n-gage games on ovi store have little n-gage banner running across bottom of icon
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