N-Gage Sales Chart for 17th to 23rd of November 2008
Published by Tzer2 at 4:08 UTC, November 27th 2008
Another sales chart, the usual suspects at the top, but something is missing... As well as sales, we've also got our usual cumulative chart and publisher chart.
Next Gen N-Gage Sales for 17th to 23rd November 2008:
1. Tetris (Electronic Arts) (LW 1) (WOC 20)
2. World Series Of Poker: Pro Challenge (Glu) (LW 2) (WOC 9)
3. DChoc Cafe Solitaire 12 Pack (Digital Chocolate) (LW 4) (WOC 5)
4. ONE (Nokia) (LW 3) (WOC 4)
5. Asphalt 3: Street Rules (Gameloft) (LW 5) (WOC 21)
LW = Last week's position
NE = New entry
RE = Re-entry
WOC = Weeks on chart
Source: N-Gage.com
All-Time Total Weeks On Chart For Next Gen N-Gage Games
1. Asphalt 3: Street Rules (Gameloft) - 21 Weeks
2. Tetris (Electronic Arts) - 20 Weeks
3. Hooked On: Creatures Of The Deep (Nokia) - 13 Weeks
4= Brothers In Arms (Gameloft) - 9 Weeks
4= World Series Of Poker: Pro Challenge (Glu) - 9 Weeks
6. Bounce: Boing Voyage (Nokia) - 7 Weeks
7= Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (THQ) - 5 Weeks
7= DChoc Cafe Solitaire 12 Pack (Digital Chocolate) - 5 Weeks
9= Dirk Dagger And The Fallen Idol (Nokia) - 4 Weeks
9= FIFA08 (Electronic Arts) - 4 Weeks
9= Midnight Pool (Gameloft) - 4 Weeks
9= ONE (Nokia) - 4 Weeks
13. Pro Series Golf (Nokia) - 3 Weeks
14= Reset Generation (Nokia) - 1 Week
14= The Sims 2: Pets (Electronic Arts) - 1 Week
All-Time Total Weeks On Chart By Publisher
1. Gameloft - 34 Weeks
2. Nokia - 32 Weeks
3. Electronic Arts - 25 Weeks
4. Glu - 9 Weeks
5= THQ - 5 Weeks
5= Digital Chocolate - 5 Weeks
All charts are based on sales data provided by Nokia on their official N-Gage blog and news site. You can see a link to it under each week's chart labelled "Source".
And, despite its name, the "Top 5 Games" list on the official N-Gage showroom page is not the sales chart, it's actually just a selection of games that Nokia wants to promote.
Categories: Miscellaneous, Industry, Games
Platforms: N-Gage
News Discussion
right away to:
blog.n-gage.com
because there are tons of new games announcements!
And please update the front page ;)
We've already got all of those games (and more) listed in our N-Gage games section:
http://www.allaboutngage.com/games/
We don't know what has happened, but if I had to guess I'd say THQ and Nokia have had some kind of dispute over licence terms. It's a third party game that is published by THQ, so THQ have the final say over what happens to it.
It could be that the game is actually finished, but waiting for the lawyers to sort out terms. If that's the case (we don't know, that is just a guess) that would be a real shame.
Another possibility is that THQ and/or Nokia are waiting for N-Gage to get a bigger userbase before releasing the bigger name games. The number of people with the N-Gage app pre-installed on their phones should be much larger in 2009 as the pre-installed models have only just appeared. More pre-installed phones would mean more potential sales for any games released in 2009.
If people knew about the free Kevtris, it might not be so popular, but still. It is a shame to see WoP in the charts at all, though.
The menus are really annoying, they take ages to change and they're very unclear (for example changing game mode has to be done as a timer counts down, and if you're too late it won't change... why?).
There's a totally free and legal Tetris clone for N-Gage-compatible phones here which I'd recommend to anyone who just wants the basic Tetris gameplay:
http://www.allaboutngage.com/unoffic...m/S-Tris_2.php
| Why can't Nokia start embedding some of the better games, like, COTD and One? |
Thankfully there are more and better game demos embedded on the newer phones (N85, N79).
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Originally Posted by Tzer2
The problem with Tetris is that the N-Gage version is an awful implementation of it, and practically identical to the much cheaper Java version.
The menus are really annoying, they take ages to change and they're very unclear (for example changing game mode has to be done as a timer counts down, and if you're too late it won't change... why?). |
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Originally Posted by Tzer2
There's a totally free and legal Tetris clone for N-Gage-compatible phones here which I'd recommend to anyone who just wants the basic Tetris gameplay:
http://www.allaboutngage.com/unoffic...m/S-Tris_2.php |