Nokia's handheld gaming service, N Gage, has officially been announced as being shut down. The service was originally launched back in 2003 in hopes to compete with Nintendo, whom, at the time, dominated the market. The first device was launched October 7th, 2003. It was not successful from the start due to its clunky design as well as the poor library of games. The design actually developed a nickname for the phone which was the "taco phone". The cell phone gaming service will no release any more games but will continue to run nokia's ovi store up through september of next year. Users will be able to buy currently released games up until that point. Games will also still work on devices after the service has been closed which may be good news for the few that use it. The downside to that is that all the community support will be gone. This isno suprise for Nokia or the public because the device and service have had poor sales as well as softwrae issues in the past.
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yeah, i remember when this came out, i knew it was a bad idea from the start. im not surprised they are shutting it down.
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