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

From: Giovanni Bertani <giovanni.bertani_at_exsense.com>
Date: 10/24/03
Message-Id: <200310240711.h9O7BSi5017310@gmoblmail4.net.vodafone.it>
Hi Martyn
I agree with you. 
It is too early but any way we have not seen the exitement of the ps2 
launch.


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Giovanni Bertani

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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:04:28 +0900 Martyn_Williams@idg.com wrote:
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>Giovanni,
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>Give it some time! It's only been a week, which is much too short a time
>for anyone to draw conclusions on N-Gage sales.
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>Also, the number is rather vague - less than 5,000. What does that mean?
>4,999 is "less than 5,000" but so again is 1. They are also all "less than
>a million"....
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>It took DoCoMo about a week to sell its first 5,000 I-mode handsets and
>look where that has ended up. My point is not that this will become as
>popular as I-mode, although I am not saying it won't, but that you can't
>draw any conclusions from vague and early sales figures.
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>Still, at least Arcadia Research managed to get some publicity from
>1up.com.
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>Martyn
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>Here is an interesting article:
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>"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.
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>Full article:
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>http://www.1up.com/article2/0,4364,1358065,00.asp
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