'Need For Speed Undercover,' 'Tiger Woods PGA Tour' and 'The Sims 3' will arrive in 2009. Big titles available in time for the winter holiday season include 'FIFA 09,' 'Spore Origins' and 'Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition.' Nokia also has to increase the number of games users can choose between, according to Pescatore, because in the end the quality of the games and the number of games will decide if N-Gage becomes a success or not.ĮA Mobile, a division of Electronic Arts, continues to back the platform. 'Once it has done that it can start to attack the market and become more aggressive,' said Paolo Pescatore, an analyst at CCS Insight. Integrating N-Gage will help the uptake of the platform because finding and installing the application is too difficult for the average user, according to Nguyen.įor the N-Gage to become a success, Nokia has to integrate it on more devices. To lure users, Nokia is also bundling phones with games, either full or trial versions, according to Joyau. So far the N96, N85 and N79 come with preinstalled support for N-Gage. 'From the N96 and forward all new N-Gage capable phones will have N-Gage preinstalled, instead of users having to download and install the application themselves,' said Christophe Joyau, who is responsible for services at Nokia in Scandinavia. 'It has been a fairly quiet launch,' said Nguyen.īut Nokia has now started to take steps that it hopes will increase the popularity of N-Gage. It's too soon to start calling it a failure and that is partly because Nokia has been taking is slow.

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