N-Gage Vouchers: Would you use them?
Published by Tzer2 at 14:18 UTC, October 14th 2008
A lot of people have had trouble buying N-Gage games because they don't have a credit card and bill payment isn't available on their phone network. A solution to this would be vouchers, which you could buy with cash from various real life shops and use to load credit into the N-Gage app, so you could then purchase games. If a voucher system was made available for buying N-Gage games, would you use it? Take part in our online poll and let us know. (It's worth noting that Nokia has many other pay-for online services including Nokia Maps and Nokia Music Store which could easily use the same vouchers.)
A leaked Nokia presentation about N-Gage in late 2006 did mention vouchers as a possible payment method but nothing was heard of that since. It does imply they've been thinking about it though, and if there's demand for it perhaps they will reconsider implementing it.
As mentioned above, from Nokia's point of view maybe the best idea would be a single combined "Nokia Voucher", where you could use it to add credit to any of Nokia's online services. That would reduce the costs of making each voucher, widen the audience for each service to people without credit cards, and promote the full range of Nokia services all at the same time. Such vouchers could also be used with any future services Nokia cares to launch.
Categories: Miscellaneous, Industry, Editorial Thoughts
Platforms: N-Gage
News Discussion
I think part of the problem is that a lot of N-Gage staff are based in America where credit cards are very easy to get hold of, so they assume everyone who wants a card has one. However, in Europe and Asia (where most of N-Gage's users are) it's much harder to get a credit card, and of course people under 18 have no credit cards at all.
Its allmost 1 month they released their last game ? I am really bored !!
Do they want people to forget ngage ?
The other thing is where is the promise for ngage on N73 and N93 gone ? we don't need to tell them how important it is to bring Ngage on these 2 models !!
They very well know how much important n73 is ? there are so many people using it.
They are doing their own Loss to a very big extent, and I dont think its such a big problem for them to overcome the RAM issues? A little effort and it can be definatley solved.
Also on the nokia forum site it was mentioned that the N96 had 3d graphics Accelerator Support, but now they have removed it from the N96 Device Specification section ! what are they exactly upto ??
Do you have any idea if the upcomming N79 has support for 3D Acceleration, because we all know that the new Ngage SDK can make use of this feature for better looking games, and who would not enjoy playing games with good graphics ???? Also many developers will be making use of this feature.
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Originally Posted by ashwyn7
Also on the nokia forum site it was mentioned that the N96 had 3d graphics Accelerator Support, but now they have removed it from the N96 Device Specification section ! what are they exactly upto ??
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Originally Posted by ashwyn7
Do you have any idea if the upcomming N79 has support for 3D Acceleratio
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AFAIK none of Nokia's new phones have graphics hardware built into them. But there are some new models due for the Spring which we haven't seen yet so perhaps we should wait and see what turns up.
| Hey Tzer2 ! Have you any Idea what's Nokias Ngage Team up too? |
The best way to do that is to embed the N-Gage app into phones straight out of the box, which is what's started happening over the past few weeks, first with the N96, now the N85 and soon the N79. In 2009 we may see N-Gage embedded in all new S60 devices.
If they can get a good userbase for the platform, that will do more than anything else to attract third party game publishers.