Thread 718838653

>N-Gage's launch price of $299 in October 2003, adjusted for inflation, is approximately $512 USD
>Launched at a time with linear marketing
>No games
>Competed against the gameboy advance and the pokemon craze
>Zero back-catalog
>No one had a internet device in their pocket so had to rely on traditional marketing
>Not shilled by every eceleb and youtuber
>Wasnt promoted on the biggest gaming platform with over 100 million users

Tell me again how the steam deck isnt a fucking failure when it sold as much as the n gage.

>No games
Bomberman, Sonic and COD are right there.

The N-gage had exclusive games, though.

Dunno about you but I saw it advertised everywhere in magazines and everyone wanted it for THPS alone, never EVER saw a person with one though

>>718838653 (OP)
>goatse phone

>gaming form factor
>phone control interface
>no games or people to phone

>>718838653 (OP)
horizontal screen

>>718838921
KEK

Nokia was only known as "that phone wich plays snake".
Steam Ick just embraced being for a more niche audience of pc fats and they seem to be enjoying it playing whatever random games they like.
I was alive and reading magazines at the time and I can literally not remember a single game made for the ngage while I can name some psp ones despite not owning nor ever considering to buy it either. With that layout and screen setup I wouldn't play any multiplats on it either.

just proves how much fuck you money nokia had back then. also perfectly showcases the software side was led by retarded boomers in love with their shitty java os.

what the fuck is linear marketing

>>718838653 (OP)
The Steam Deck isn't supposed to be a flagship product. It's just supposed to be pressure on Windows' dominance over the market.

>>718838653 (OP)
The ngage was great. Hearing you retards talk about it is like listening to zoomers being completely bewildered by the N64 controller.

>>718840380
what was great about it
I don't think i've ever seen anyone use one

n64 is a great controller save for the dpad and stick wearing out

it had marketing. it was essentially billed as like the first smart phone though that term didn't exist and it had kiosks in every phone store. my friend had one and we made fun of him for it.

>>718839147
Symbian was a great OS, and I'm tired of smartphone zoomers acting like it wasn't because they didn't have the internet in their pockets.

>>718838653 (OP)
The screen should have been 320x240.
Fuckers had devices with larger screen sizes that fucking 170x220 for the same price.

>>718838653 (OP)
>nigger gage
You lost and got raped Cire.
>Market research firm IDC, which uses production lines to track the number of units shipped, has now released its estimates. We learn that 5.972 million Steam Decks have been shipped worldwide so far. By 2025, it is estimated that a further 1.926 million machines will be added to this total, taking it to almost 8 million units.

https://news.instant-gaming.com/en/articles/10972-three-years-after-release-the-steam-deck-has-sold-6-million-units

>>718841501
The key issue with upping the resolution is that you break compatibility with all the java games, which were 90% of the market back then, and you make everything harder to run.

The real failed console everyone should've been talking about was the Zodiac, but that was so unpopular people barely noticed it. Which is a shame, because it had some neat ideas.

>>718841163
They did have internet though, it as called WAP and it was horrible, going to an actual webpage was expensive and slower than old school dial up

>>718841949
WAP wasn't really the internet, every site needed a mobile exclusive version or everything broke down.

>>718841949
you now remember your speakers making noises whenever this phone was doing something

Why was this made?

>>718838653 (OP)
>>No games
Bullshit. N-Gage had exclusive titles and instalments of established series, even.
>>Zero back-catalog
Symbian was a pre-existing OS with a whole-ass library of applications and games.

I'm not going to defend that piece of shit (which I owned and enjoyed very much, because I was a stupid kid), but at least get your facts straight. Zoomer.

>>718838653 (OP)
The N-gage actually would have been good for shmup ports because of its unique form factor. Shame nobody picked up on that.

>>718840803
They had kiosks in game stores too. I remember playing one, the buttons felt cheap and rubbery. The lettering had also begun to rub off after just a few weeks.

>>718840380
we all made fun of it in the 2000's (my HS friend called it a Taco Phone) and more people than not got filtered at first by the N64 controller especially if they were coming off of the SNES

stop lying you fucking revisionist douche. Next your gonna tell me people loved the fucking gizmodo or tapwave zodiac