Nokia failed the N-Gage vision, but is it a portent for Ovi?

The announcement from Finland that the N-Gage service will be canned at the end of September 2010, with no more effort placed into the ecosystem by Nokia, gave some tech blogs an open goal for some humour, but also points out a big problem that Nokia have. N-Gage, both in it’s hardware iteration and it’s Software and Services iteration have been great ideas. It’s fair to say that the original mobile gaming vision in 2003 was a good four or five years ahead of the pack, with online gaming, connected community and software downloaded over the internet (although perhaps that … Continue reading Nokia failed the N-Gage vision, but is it a portent for Ovi?