N-Gage lives

Michael Gartenberg | August 29, 2007, 05:56 AM

There's been too much written about why n-gage was less than a success, the re-vamped strategy makes sense. the goal is no longer to take on nintendo or sony in the mobile console space but to move up beyond the level of java or brew titles and create a mid tier for gaming. titles are priced between DS games and low end java games. there's also a community aspect and trial services that makes it easy to try games before buying. overall, a good strategy for casual mobile games but potentially inhibited by the costs of the handsets that are n-gage compatible at this time.