NOKIA CALL IT A DAY ON GAMING SERVICE
6 November 2009
N-Gage to close next year
After less than a year of actual operational use, the
mobile phone giant Nokia is to close its controversial -
and developmentally expensive - mobile gaming service.
The service, which at one time was thought to hold
some online gambling potential (see previous InfoPowa
report) will close next (2010) year, a move widely seen
in Europe as an acknowledgement of failure in the
company's first major services offering.
Games
and music were Nokia's first targets in the service
sector as the group looked for new income sources to
compensate as its traditional handset market matured.
However, Nokia's dedicated gaming phones proved
unpopular in the market despite a massive global
advertising campaign.
"We will no longer publish
new games for the N-Gage platform," Nokia said on its
N-Gage blog this week, adding that the games would be
available until the end of September 2010, and the
supporting community site would remain in operation
throughout 2010.
Nokia's leading position in the
cellphone market had attracted all the top mobile game
makers -- including Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Glu
Mobile and Digital Chocolate to create special games for
N-Gage.
After closing the N-Gage service, Nokia
will continue to sell mobile games at its Ovi Store.
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