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Gamestop and Electronics are offering a $100 dollar rebate on Nokia's handheld unit until November 2nd.

The rebate is an instant one, not mail-in as well. Because of this, it is not known whether Nokia is behind this price cut, or if it is the two retailers trying to unload their massive inventories. Interestingly, the N-Gage rebate is not mentioned on the official N-Gage website If it is mentioned, it is very well hidden. This tends to point to the latter that pushed for the cut.

Is the N-Gage heading the way of the Jaguar?

Source: Gamespot

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This is still not enough to save the system in my eyes. One can still get both a Gameboy SP AND a Gamecube for that price. This is just a company and some retailers trying to spare what little they can of their investment before it becomes another E.T. from the Atari 2600 age.

This post has been edited by Tiddles on 27th October 2003 19:30

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

I own a copy of that E.T. game. It's horrible; I urge all of you fortunate enough to have avoided its path to continue to do so. ^_^

Anyway, I concur with the N-Gage analysis; it seems to be going downhill.

Quite honestly, I think the concept behind the N-Gage was a good one, but our wireless technology is not yet at a point where the N-Gage is a feasible entertainment system (price-wise or reliability-wise), just as virtual reality technology wasn't strong enough when Nintendo chose to release the Virtual Boy.

-Phoenix