Nokia Sees Overall Gaming Market “Not Growing”; EA Slams N-Gage

As the global economic crisis continues, Nokia’s head of gaming Jaakko Kaidesoja said he expected that the overall gaming market is “likely not growing” in 2009. Speaking to Reuters at Nokia’s gaming summit in Rome, Kaidesoja said, however, that some parts of the market–including pre-loaded games, emerging markets, N-Gage (naturally), and iPhone–would grow. Kaidesoja also revealed that players had created 400,000 personal profiles on the N-Gage Arena since its launch in May. There are now more than 20 million N-Gage capable handsets on the market, but the major stumbling block, which Kaidesoja acknowledged, was that for the vast majority of those phones, users must install N-Gage on their phone themselves.More at mocoNews.net

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