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I feel very nostalgic. I worked with Nokia’s N-Gage the first time around and have obviously followed the progress of Nokia’s ill-fated gaming venture ever since.
A year back Nokia relaunched the revamped N-Gage. As a service, not a gaming phone. Smart move I thought. And it seems that I was right and so was Nokia. The service has now hit one million subscribers and is growing pretty rapidly thanks to the pre-installed N-Gage applications in most new Nokia smart phones.
Ok Nokia. Here’s the plan: Keep the faith even though the times are tough. Get more quality games out, keep on developing the service and trust your staff that have believed and worked hard to make this happen. You NEED to be in mobile gaming and now it seems like you might finally have a fighting chance.
OnLive is a new service / game console hybrid launched at this years Games Developer Conference that aims to run all gaming PC manufacturers out of business. The promise is simple: Let our service do the heavy lifting for your high-end games while you only need a Wii-priced box that’s connected to your LCD or Plasma and of you go to gaming paradise. Cloud computing, anyone?
Sounds really really cool, innovative and promising but somehow I’m just not convinced. I hope it’ll happen since I’ve long ago switched to the dark side. But let’s see what the impressive cast of characters (featuring former bigwigs from Atari, Apple and Eidos) can actually deliver.
