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.
Venerdì, 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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Received on Fri Oct 24 14:18:21 2003