well, Red Jade claims to be powerfull, so if they even get some good ports on there, i'd buy it easily. i'd love to get some portable Ridge Racer already.
as for the N-Gage, it seems like it might get good support. and it should havge online multiplayer, so as long as good games come to it, then it's worth keeping up with the system.
As was said in the other thread, Sony owns Ericsson. That means that Sony could potentially bully companies into supporting it by threatening to take away their licenses to make PS2/3 games.
Hard to say, since I'm afraid that neither will offer truly great games. Then again, Nokia does have Sega, so that's something, and it may lure other 3rd parties to join the fray. After all, I'm sure there's lots of money to be made in cell phone-style gaming.
Even though its capability seems a bit less, I voted for the Nokia.
I have not decided which one to vote for yet. A few things I want to point though.
First of all, according to another thread on this board Sony does not own Ericsson. "Sony Ericsson" is some sort of a joint venture by the two companies.
Second of all, just because Sega stated they'd make games for N-Gage does not mean they won't make games for Red Jade. I am sure that if Red Jade becomes a viable platform they'll make games for it too -- seeing as how they are still "platform agnostic".
Anyway, I am still not sure which one interests me more. The Nokia one seems more likely to see the light of day. I like Nokia as a company. I am not thrilled with the design of the N-Gage though. The screen looks really really small and having all those buttons seems a bit scary (even if the two main game buttons are red and raised).
The Ericsson one looks better bet since it is a dedicated games machine (even if it seems a bit GP32ish in design)... but it also seems more likely to end up as vapourware. On the other hand, if Sony plays a role in marketing it who the hell knows how much this this could take off...
Anyway, I am still thinking about my answer for the poll. I hope they both come to market at a reasonable price though. The portable sector could really use some competition to make things interesting again.
The n-gage does not look like anything I'd want to play on though. Red Jade looks like a slick peice of hardware, it's economical, it's functional... It just makes more sense.
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