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Ovi Store – the new home for mobile gaming
By JBC on 02 November 2009
GLOBAL – As N-Gage begins its transition to the heaven for mobile gaming platforms, a new home is emerging with a whole host of treats lined up. Ovi Store has been sporting an ever increasing range of games since its launch and now that’s set to accelerate further as it picks up the gaming torch from N-Gage. Moving mobile gaming to one central home alongside apps and other content makes complete sense to me and I’m looking forward to seeing what it brings for users.
Ovi Store already packs more games than N-Gage did. 270 for the N97 alone, versus the small collection of titles on N-Gage. Of course, the proposition is slightly different (these games aren’t focussed on the community as much as N-Gage was). As InfoSync world points out, this makes it an ideal place for games to live:
Beyond the range of games available, there comes a breadth of content which we’d never have seen from the N-Gage store. By virtue of the fact that the Ovi Store is available across so many devices, and across so many countries, distributing games across the different Nokia platforms is much easier than on N-Gage. We’re also ripe for the quick-hit games which might not offer the depth of an N-Gage title, but still help users to lose an hour or two here or there.
We’re busy getting a video interview with the man behind games at Nokia, Mark Ollila who is giving us some insight behind the switch. We’ll have that live for you in the next day or so, meanwhile check out what Mark had to say when he recently spoke to Stuart at MobileEnt.biz.
Let us know what you think about the move in the comments below.
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November 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
lol dont you mean ovi store already offers 1000 flash and java rubbish titles, with 1 or 2 decent native titles.
with just java crap and no games with online features, games on ovi store are rubbish and the best ones are already 2 to 3 years old.
ovi games are good for Nokia b/c they get 30% of the revenue but bad for mobile gaming enthusiasts b/c its a step back in to mobile stone age in terms of quality imho, nokia really need to encourage developers to use symbian code instead of java, open up features and api’s what are left over from the failure of n-gage if they are to get anywhere to the kind of quality what’s on istone
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November 2nd, 2009 at 8:08 pm
bye bye ngage my lover
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November 2nd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Well, i won’t miss n-gage..
But even with ovi, i don’t like it either…
It looks like those warez sites that have the same games, the same apps, etc.. Pick one, distribute by all of them..
Why do we need ovi? We can go get our games at developers sites, no?
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November 2nd, 2009 at 11:12 pm
I really will miss N-Gage. I still hope to play COtD on my 5800.
I think is a natural move. Ovi aims to be the only channel for apps and everything.
Just don’t let the N-Gage community down. We really like forums, friends and everything, you can see it in the comments of the post that told about the move ( http://blog.n-gage.com/archive/mobile-gaming-evolves-–-ovi-store-is-here/ ).
My carrier has more game titles to my phone (5800XM) than Ovi store. If you want Ovi store to be the only channel, please let game publishers know (e.g. Gameloft).
I like the ovi approach and I’m still supporting you guys. But don’t just follow the steps of Apple, you need to go further. I guess your best move is to bring everything to Ovi, (beta apps, games, communities) and make it different from other app stores. Is up to you…
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November 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 am
OVI Store has NO Bounce Bounce Voyage, NO Resident Evil, NO Reset Generation, NO Boom Blox, NO Need for Speed, NO Asphalt, and NO good games at all — except for people who like crosswords.
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