N-Gage a global success!

[Razola]

Or at least that's what they've convinced themselves. (http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6077184.html)

Nothing like good ol' fashioned spin.

Seriously the only education consumers need is that this thing is a three hundred dollar piece of crap. For that much money you could buy a GBA, GBA SP, Gamecube, X-Box, or PS2. And you'd have money left for a cheap cell phone or some games for whatever hardware you bought.

[classy_cat18]

*laughs at news story* I hope they know that some PS2 games sold a lot faster than 400,000 units in the first two weeks.

[Razola]

And old figure I dug up from 2001:

"In its first week, Game Boy Advance software earned approximately $18.5 million in revenue, with over 540,000 units selling through retailers in the U.S. alone."

Maybe today is opposite day and that article really means "giant failure as predicted."

[classy_cat18]

Take a look at this:

http://www.1up.com/article2/0,4364,1362683,00.asp

[PNT510]

Originally posted by Raz
And old figure I dug up from 2001:

"In its first week, Game Boy Advance software earned approximately $18.5 million in revenue, with over 540,000 units selling through retailers in the U.S. alone."

Maybe today is opposite day and that article really means "giant failure as predicted."

Also note that only around 500,000 were aviliable for sale the first day in the US, my thought it is if there were more GBA's it would have sold even better.

[Razola]

The N-Gage is doing so well some stores have already dropped (http://ngage.ign.com/articles/456/456522p1.html) the price to put the pressure on Nintendo.

I bet Sony is sweating it now!