Interesting news for you Ngage fans

[remysf3]

http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6081776.html

 

[muffinman943]

this will end it for good, nintendo is now 7-0 for its gameboy, whos up next 2 get their ass kicked??

 

[Scared0o0Rabbit]

it's tapwave I believe, though they're going for a different market with the zodiac, it's supposed to be like a pda that can play some games and stuff too. It runs palm OS so it cna run all the programs for that, so atleast it'll have plenty of games, and a decent controller too I hear. Then after that there's sony lol.

 

[racketboy]

at least Nokia might sell some games now

 

[muffinman943]

yea, thats true. I heard that in their first 2 weeks, they only sold 1000 units in north america, but theyre gonna keep selling games 4 it, since its only a cellphone, and a small investment on nokia's side, but it will be sure to lose 3rd party support soon. hopefully, sega will be off his damn ass boat 2 hell :devil

 

[Des-ROW]

Predictable, after all, the N-Gage is nothing but the UGLIEST keitai ever created.

 

[Pearl Jammzz]

keitai? ok....

 

[Resident_Lurker]

携帯電話 (けいたいでんわ)

Cell phone, I guess.

..yay for jwpce

 

[Des-ROW]

Keitai is short for keitaidenwa, or cell phone, just like Resident_Lurker stated.

 

[ratfish]

Let's hope Sega saw this comming too and didn't put billions of dollars into market research for developing NGage games.

 

[Resident_Lurker]

エンゲジョは美味しいですか？

はい！そうだな！

 

[IBarracudaI]

.... yeah... I agree with you... I just can't understand a single word

 

[Alexvrb]

This is why they should have thrown in some proprietary hardware... something different. A proprietary graphics chip would have helped for instance, even if it was based off the simple stuff that ATI currently puts out. I personally am looking forward to seeing what the PVR MBX chips can do.

 

[Ammut]

Originally posted by Scared0o0Rabbit+Nov 11, 2003 @ 01:09 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Scared0o0Rabbit @ Nov 11, 2003 @ 01:09 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>it's tapwave I believe, though they're going for a different market with the zodiac, it's supposed to be like a pda that can play some games and stuff too.[/b]

The zodiac is out, but I read that you can only get it at the official website. And with such little fanfare of its release i doubt it'll get to much of a userbase. But it will most likely do better than Ngage, thankfully.

Sony is the major contender to wait for in this department.

<!--QuoteBegin-ratfish@Nov 11, 2003 @ 04:31 AM

Let's hope Sega saw this comming too and didn't put billions of dollars into market research for developing NGage games. [/quote]

Seeing as their contributions were all ports I think they are safe there... though I doubt they made much money at all on the sale(s) of their games.

---Ammut

 

[antime]

Originally posted by Alexvrb@Nov 12, 2003 @ 07:14 AM

This is why they should have thrown in some proprietary hardware... something different.

From Nokia's FAQ:

The Nokia N-Gage game deck has other features that are not provided on Series 60 phones; currently, this information is confidential, but shared with authorized Nokia N-Gage mobile game deck developers.

What these features actually are is another question.

 

[Gallstaff]

Probably the feature to magically not sell

 

[AntiPasta]

I read thru some dev manuals (I believe you can download em), they dont state much about the thing's inner workings but they do mention the possible use of a DSP by the games... maybe it is used for 3D calculations or Bluetooth communication? Anyhow, I guess it wont be the same as the one used in other phones.

 

[racketboy]

I heard some of the games that use OpenGL won't be able to run on some phones

 

[antime]

The other S60 phones probably use a similar or even the same DSP as the N-Gage (the "dual-core" bit just means it's integrated into the CPU), but one of the extras may of course be a special API for it.

 

[gameboy900]

Ok this thing needs to drop of the face of the earth now so it will get discounted and I can add it to my collection for a few bucks. But I need to find a SIM card somewhere cause otherwise you can't even play the friggin games on it.