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Disappointing Sales for Nokia's UK N-Gage Launch

Posted on Tuesday 21st October 2003 at 21:06 by SSJ_Cloud
Nokia's "answer" to Nintendo's Gameboy Advance sold poorly during its first week of availability in the UK.

6000 stores that had the device available for sale were polled. These stores combined to sell only 500 units. That means only 8% of retailers sold even one unit. In the time period that these 500 N-Gages were sold, 1,500 Gameboy Advance were purchased by UK consumers.

In other N-Gage news, the best selling game for the unit during its first week was a Tomb Raider remake.

Source: Gameforms

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I'm all for competition to the Gameboy Advance. I really am. But the N-Gage isn't going to be it. Reading some of the product reviews, it seems that you basically have to disassemble the unit just to play a game. Even worse is its price which is $300 US.

Has anymore here actually tried one of the units?
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Rangers51Comment 1: 2003-10-21 21:18
Rangers51 Nice to see that it's just as lame overseas as here. Feliks, I hope you're reading this - I seem to recall you talking about how huge the N-Gage was going to be.
Dark PaladinComment 2: 2003-10-21 21:29
Dark Paladin And people say Nintendo isn't big anymore phone.gif
tenshi/akumaComment 3: 2003-10-22 00:22
tenshi/akuma Yeah, maybe if the games were any good, and the N-Gage wasn't so damn inconvenient (not to mention you look stupid talking on it), it might have been a good contender. But it isn't. *points his finger at Nokia and laughs*
ElapidaeComment 4: 2003-10-22 11:22
Elapidae when gamegear was released, didnt it find out the same thing? that gameboy owns the market and they better do something radically different in order to compete?
Del SComment 5: 2003-10-22 17:21
Del S Well, looks like nokia picked a silly time- right as everyone starts saving up for Christmas, and of course, starts buying in the Explosives for November the 5th...


No one buys anything from nokia apart from Mobiles over here anyway... and since people think the only games on the N-gage are already ON their Cell Phones... whoops, maybe that extensive ad campaign should have pointed out a few things...
1)- its not just a mobile better designed for palying games and
2)- How much the thing COSTS! wacko.gif
all together now...
NOIKA , YOU MUPPETS!
Dark PaladinComment 6: 2003-10-22 21:27
Dark Paladin
Quote (Elapidae @ 22nd October 2003 07:22)
when gamegear was released, didnt it find out the same thing? that gameboy owns the market and they better do something radically different in order to compete?

Actually, the GameGear did very well. It just dropped later in the game because all they were releasing were rip-off Genesis games on it.

What kinds of stuff does the N-Gage have as far as games go?
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