Why do people hate n-gage?

I really don't know so enlighten me with as little flames as possible =P

it failed. it sucks. bad graphics. too many buttons to knwo what the heck you need to press to do something in the game. what else?

Quote by Super Flash Brothers- "It looks like a phone that was eaten by a gameboy"

Good topic.

The N-Gage, created by Nokia Laboratories, was touted (used) as the 'killer' of Nintendo's Gameboy Advance. Released in 2003, it has sold a little over one million units in the span of 2 years.

What we must take into consideration is the marketing ploys and strategies employed by Nokia to sell their N-Gages. They offered the original N-Gage and QD systems free with a mobile phone plan, and multiple price drops occured to raise sales. Even with the first release of the N-Gage, it failed to even meet the sales of the Nintendo Gameboy Advance. The Nintendo DS crushed the N-Gage further, reaching the same sales mark in 2 months, then went on to sell 6 times as many units. The Gameboy Advance then took its own shot at the N-Gage, selling 70 times more units.

The N-Gage is plagued with bluetooth problems, controls, buttons, and lack of quality games. The N-Gage Arena for online play has been a center of many problems, mostly lag and disconnection.

Therefore, it failed.

Nokia seems to be more of a cell phone company than gaming.

i personally thought nokia was stupid for trying to defeat nintendo in the handheld market. First, they're rather new as far as i know. Second, Nintendo has dug it's roots way too deep already for the handheld market. Sony can take a chunk of the handheld market, but not enough to defeat nintendo (at least, in my opinion)

search ngage on wikipedia. explains everything

Screw wikipedia, some of the information is inaccurate.

o_o it's a handheld... and a cell phone??

Alf... I'm tell you in simplicity:

Quote by Super Flash Brothers- "It looks like a phone that was eaten by a gameboy"

You only said it "looks" like it. Not actually is like it.

it's a phone, games, music, and a few other things? Not sure. But it sucks in hte game department, which is suposed to defeat the gba. Saddening

games:

Tony Hawk
Tomb Raider
Sonic

those are the ONLY games i can remember for the ngage

There were way more than that, lol. But they were miserably bad.

Lol I heard it was too High-Tech xD!

N-Gage Arena: online service

Peak usage - 23 players online
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection - 4 million simultaneous users

yeah..................not exactly sure what nokia was thinking with this thing....................

so are they still making anything for this system or what?