What does the new N-Gage platform mean for mobile gamers and the industry?
Gregg Sauter: The N-Gage platform will provide a premium gaming experience to consumers and will help this industry evolve and mature – which it needs to. So now you may be asking what “premium” means. The platform is established on the Nokia S60 platform and will therefore be available across a large proportion of Nokia S60 devices in the coming years starting mid 2007. These devices are essentially multimedia computers which means they combine a range of functions (e.g. games, music, photos, video email, Internet browsing) in a single connected device and are natively programmable. The games will be coded in C++, so these will be native games, providing the richest gaming experience possible on mobile handsets. This is a plus for consumers, publishers and operators because it finally brings the industry a broad platform for native, connected games. This will be a global platform with multiple digital distribution channels. The other benefit for publishers is that we expect this platf
