Nokia announces the end of its N-Gage gaming platform
Nokia has officially announced that it will put an end to its problem-plagued N-Gage gaming service, integrating it into its Ovi Store. The move isn't really a shocker, and while Nokia has confirmed that no further games will be published, it's also said that it will continue to sell currently available games in the Ovi Store (as of today) until the end of September 2010. The N-Gage website, which holds the Arena and community boards, will also continue until that time. Nokia says that any already purchased games will continue to run on the mobile device, but that any connected community features will be non-functional come 2010.
[Via Pocket Lint]
[Via Pocket Lint]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ballmer Steve @ Oct 30th 2009 3:17PM
UIQ dead, MOAP dead
now S60 wounded..
One step closer to the fall of Symbian.
hary536 @ Oct 31st 2009 3:39AM
This is a new rise of Symbian and not fall.
Btw, N-gage has nothing to do with Symbian. It is Nokia's platform.
Again, if you hit the read link in the engadget article above,you will see Nokia's
real message regarding this step. Engadget very cleverly did not mention in their write-up,
reading which, most of the users like you will jump to wrong conclusions.
BoBoPrime @ Oct 30th 2009 3:51PM
Goodbye, ear-taco. Nobody loved you...
Jouten @ Oct 30th 2009 7:28PM
I can't say that Symbian is 'wounded' or even 'dying' for that matter. There are still millions upon millions of phones out there and the owners of those phones, will more than likely re-purchase another symbian operating system phone when it comes time. That's like say 'Windows' is wounded and Windows is 'dying'. Think about it...