N-Gage smashes sales records.

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Originally Posted by dog$

Less than 5K for debut week.

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Ouch!

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For a rough historical comparison, Atari's famous failed Jaguar console also sold approximately 5,000 units in its first week of release...

Another rough comparison would be to the Game Boy Advance, which sold 540,000 units in its first week of availability in the United States.

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pwn3d by 1up!!!!11

LOL
Comparing it to the Jaguar sales makes it even funnier... especially with the Jaguar sales being only in NY. :)

I want to see a 3do sales comparison now.

http://games.slashdot.org/games/03/1...id=186&tid=207

I work at a Target store in WA state. We sell the Nokia N-Gage. Well actually, "sell" isn't the right word. We have them available for sale. Since it's debut, we haven't sold a single one. Only two people have even inquired about them: a 10-year-old kid who was only interested in it for it's .mp3 playback ability, and another kid whose mother didn't want to spend $300 on something that small.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Hey, don't talk shit on the Spaceball 360. It was a fine product, just never got any real suport.

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Anything called "Spaceball" is instantly cool :)

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Originally Posted by FighterX

http://games.slashdot.org/games/03/1...id=186&tid=207

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"According to Gamesindustry.biz, "The first official statement from Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia on the launch of its N-Gage game deck has claimed that the device is sold out at many retailers following a 'very positive' consumer response."

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:lol:

let the lies and PR disaster recovery begin

perhaps "very positive" is an ample statement- I'm suprised it actually sold more than ONE unit...

"very positive" because people love tacos! they just didn't buy an N-gage

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Originally Posted by bbobb

LOL
Comparing it to the Jaguar sales makes it even funnier... especially with the Jaguar sales being only in NY. :)

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Pwned by the Jag!!111!

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Originally Posted by bbobb

LOL
Comparing it to the Jaguar sales makes it even funnier... especially with the Jaguar sales being only in NY. :)

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Where it sold out its' test run of 50,000 units, not 5,000. Atari thought they had something good, but needless to say the console went on to sell less than 500K in the whole US.