What will Nokia learn from the Failure of N-Gage?
So the dust has settled on Nokia’s ‘as late as possible in the working week’ announcement at the end of October that the Next-Generation N-Gage Platform will be closed down in September 2010. The internet sites piled in with “I thought this was dead” and made the obligatory reference to sidetalking and including a picture of the original smartphone. Okay, we made the same digs as well, but then carried on. Most tech sites left it at a joke and moved on. And while the Nokia fanboys reared up their heads and complained in the comments, it illustrates one of the reasons why Next Gen N-Gage has failed. And the blame is, squarely, at the door of Nokia. The annoying thing is that, as the Next-Gen Platform launched, the technology was pretty much in place. It had an on-device client that was targeting the majority of handsets in the S60 portfolio; a built in application store before they became fashionable; not only their own development studios but third party support from THQ, EA and Gamelo
