Comments on: CNN profiles Gizmondo http://www.nokia770.com/159 Nokia 770, news, reviews, links and opinions Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:57:49 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: kris http://www.nokia770.com/159/comment-page-1#comment-250 kris Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:37:38 +0000 http://nokia770.com/159#comment-250 Gizmondo is probably not actually a serious company. Their last report was full of peculiar financial transactions (for example the company director paid an independent development company he owned millions for a game that Gizmondo had already developed in-house). It's possible this is all just some scheme to make the directors rich even if the whole thing flops. On N-gage, I love my N-gage QD (no sidetalking, hotswap card slot etc) and the games since 2004 are really excellent (Pathway To Glory got 90s and 80s from every single review site), but I have to agree the launch was really badly handled. The advertising was especially bad, it ignored the smartphone functions (indeed the phone functions entirely!) and just concentrated on the games, but the launch games were terrible. If Nokia had waited 6 or 12 months, advertised it as the smartphone that it is (it's a standard Symbian S60) and launched with stuff like Pathway To Glory, Pocket Kingdom, Elder Scrolls Shadowkey etc they'd have probably had a fairly respectful reception. Gizmondo is probably not actually a serious company. Their last report was full of peculiar financial transactions (for example the company director paid an independent development company he owned millions for a game that Gizmondo had already developed in-house). It’s possible this is all just some scheme to make the directors rich even if the whole thing flops.

On N-gage, I love my N-gage QD (no sidetalking, hotswap card slot etc) and the games since 2004 are really excellent (Pathway To Glory got 90s and 80s from every single review site), but I have to agree the launch was really badly handled. The advertising was especially bad, it ignored the smartphone functions (indeed the phone functions entirely!) and just concentrated on the games, but the launch games were terrible. If Nokia had waited 6 or 12 months, advertised it as the smartphone that it is (it’s a standard Symbian S60) and launched with stuff like Pathway To Glory, Pocket Kingdom, Elder Scrolls Shadowkey etc they’d have probably had a fairly respectful reception.

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