Nokia N-Gage Series 60 Gaming Details: It’s Better Than We Expected
Remember the new N-Gage software we told you about a month ago? The ones that were playable on Series 60 Nokia phones? We’ve got some new details on it.The easy way to describe the whole experience is Xbox Live Arcade for mobiles. You’ve got an Xbox Live kind of system with usernames, friends lists, gamer points, profiles, and arcade-like games from studios like EA and Gameloft. What does this mean to you, the Series 60 user? Well, if you’ve got one of the select Series 60 phones released recently—they haven’t specified which yet—or any new Series 60 coming up, you’ll be able to load this suite onto the phone and start gaming.
On-portal mobile game revenue jumped 61 percent year-over-year to $151 million in Q4 2006 (see Table 1). Nearly 17.4 million mobile consumers downloaded a mobile game last quarter, up 45 percent from a total of 12 million downloaders a year ago, according to Telephia, the world’s largest provider of syndicated consumer research to the telecom and mobile media markets
