When Nokia failed to generate enough buzz with its gaming phone offerings under the N-Gage name, it switched gears in 2008 to offer the platform instead as a gaming service. It now appears that strategy was a failure as well: N-Gage is set to be phased out in 2010.
Games would be able to be purchased through September of next year. The community site attached to the N-Gage platform would stay online through 2010, Nokia said. A complete exit from gaming is not happening however: the manufacturer said its Ovi service would still offer a selection of games.
October 30th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Does this mean Settlers of Catan will be on every other platform? That’s all I wanted nGage for. It’d be cool to own one cheap without contract, but thats it.