Ngage price

[Eightbitbreaks]

Snake like the cell phone game.. I think.

[Shin Johnpv]

like the old school PC game where you move a tiny line across the screen eating things of various sorts and it causes your snake to grow and the whole time you need to avoid hitting the walls and hitting yourself

[Jeremy]

Nice referenc, S11p. I don't think the N-Gage has a hope in hell at this price. They've got to lower it to, at most, $150. And that's only if they market the hell out of the multi-faceted nature of the thing.

[Blaine]

At the risk of sounding like a dick...what did you expect?

Cell phones are expensive. Find one large screen, color, cell phone that you can buy for less than $100...WITHOUT a contract, just straight up purchase.

You might be able to find a service who'll offer you a rebate on it with a plan, it is after all a cell phone more or less like any other.

Hell if it was, say, $90 that'd be the steal of the year as far as cells go.

Wanna spend $300 on a handheld? Buy a pocket PC or palm pilot.

[Ragnarok the Red]

Originally posted by gameoverDude
$280 for N-Gage? Oh, really competitive. This will be the 3DO of handheld systems.

Nah, man, that's too kind, at least the 3DO had some redeeming games like the awesome Star Control 2 port, Return Fire, Lucienne's Quest, etc.

It could be more like the CD-I of game systems...that one didn't have a single, worthwhile, original title in it's library. It crashed and burned so bad people don't even bother to use it in failed game system pop culture references and use 3DO/Jaguar instead (both of which had some pretty good games). I think the only worthwhile thing that ever came out for CD-I was the port of the PC's 7th Guest, which is supposed to be the best version of the game that was made.

As for the N-Gage, man, I sincerely hope there are some package deals out there that will drop the price to the $80-100 range, no way in hell anyone's gonna by a portable gaming system that costs more than a PS2 or X-Box...

[Jeremy]

The CD-i ports of pretty much all the FMV games of the day were usually the best. I remember EGM gushing over them.

[Wildkat]

The CD-I had a handful of good games, and a buttload of crappy ones.

Id get in detail, but its waaaaaaaay off topic...

[plik]

please do, or send me PM, i just got both a CD-i and a 3do for free, and i would love to find out what are the good games/software to track down.

[Shin Johnpv]

plik get a 6 button control pad and Super Street Fighter II Turbo for your 3D0

[gameoverDude]

Originally posted by Ragnarok the Red
Nah, man, that's too kind, at least the 3DO had some redeeming games like the awesome Star Control 2 port, Return Fire, Lucienne's Quest, etc.

When 3DO first came out, that $700 price tag didn't do much for it.

Once Panasonic cut their 3DO's price down to $400, it did pick up some... keeping it at $700 was no option.

I'm guessing Nokia may drop the price on N-Gage at some point in the future. If it falls to about $149 later on (give it a year or two perhaps), I may consider it.