Nokia Gaming Service Delayed Again

Techtree News Staff, Dec 28, 2007 1245 hrs IST

Introduced in August this year, the service was originally slated for an official launch in November.

Once again Nokia has delayed the launch of its N-gage gaming service, citing the reason as software testing taking longer than expected.

Introduced in August this year, the service was originally slated for an official launch in November.

The first delay pushed it back to December, and now Nokia has pushed it even further to early 2008. Interestingly, the reason given for the earlier delay was the same as for this one.

According to a Nokia spokesperson, there's an issue with the software that's been identified, but needs to be resolved before the service goes live. Which will take a few weeks, and hence the launch has been pushed back to early 2008.

The N-gage gaming service will have a music shop and mapping services. The indicative pricing for N-Gage games to be sold at the store will range between 6 and 10 Euros (between Rs 350 and Rs 570), and they can be bought on credit.

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USER COMMENTS

Ngage Classic and Ngage QD are a thing of the past, Year 2008, Ngage is a platform now and there is no wierd shaped console that it's tied to. Almost all Symbian OS 9 based Nokia phones (read N series and many other) support it. If you play games like Pathway to Glory or Tomb Raider on the original Ngage, you'd realize how superior a graphics quality these phones could deliver deliver at that time, Ngage compatible phones these days like N95, N93, N82 etc have 3D acceleration hardware built in, you can only imagine how good that'd be.

by bobby167, Delhi, on Dec 29, 2007 12:23 PM, Report abuse Reply

by Hardeep Singh, New Delhi, on Dec 29, 2007 12:21 PM, Report abuse Reply

N gage is history ...no amount of tweaking or software testing is going to resurrect its lost glory...The thing to watch out for in the near future would be a fone from Sony ericsson ...which would combine a PSP as well ....I am waiting for it ...Are u?

by Ankush, NOIDA, on Dec 28, 2007 12:52 PM, Report abuse Reply

its not a phone they are talking about new gaming platform something like Xbox Live!

by Ravi Vagadia, Amreli, on Dec 28, 2007 06:29 PM, Report abuse

lol.... maybe uve not played on an ngage.. its like saying n64 is history... even tho n64 is old its still probably the best gaming console ever made... and the ngage aint that good i agree but u just cant put it off.. its real fun playing on a qd and its the smallest and most portable one ive used..

by Yaniv, Bangalore, on Dec 28, 2007 05:38 PM, Report abuse Reply