Nokia Admits Failure of N-Gage Gaming Cell Phone

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 29, 2005 - 9:50am.

Los Angeles - Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has admitted publicly for the first time that its N-Gage hybrid cell phone/mobile game deck is a failure, having sold just 2 million units across two product releases, far short of its goal of 6 million sales, VNUnet.com reported. "N-Gage is still being sold but it was not a success in the sense of developing a new category," Antti Vasara, Nokia's vice president for corporate strategy, told VNUnet.com. The company plans to continue manufacture existing models for sale mainly in Asian markets, but will not produce any new models. Instead, Nokia will begin integrating gaming software into its main phone models, and focus more on mobile TV and music services. Nokia said it will also continue to develop game titles for existing N-Gage models.
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