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From here - this is pretty funny (and real!):
In the world of big business, we're used to high-ranking businessmen choosing to discuss even the most innocuous of subjects with tact and diplomacy. That unwritten rule appears to have been abandoned where Nokia's N-Gage is concerned; the Finnish company's much derided handheld console has been publicly castigated by none other than John Riccitiello, President of Electronic Arts.
When Riccitiello was asked for his feelings on the under-performing handheld, EA's man was unusually frank. "When I picked that thing up I knew it was a dog - it just feels stupid," commented the President of the world's biggest software publisher in an interview with Reuters.
The prominent businessman then mimicked the problems of using the game as a phone whilst in the middle of a game, and referred to sales of the unit as "non-meaningful".
It wasn't all bad news for Nokia; Riccitiello also opined that Nokia is one of the best design engineering companies he knew, adding that he thought Nokia would eventually succeed in the gaming sector. "Nokia will figure it out," he said. "It's just that they haven't figured it out yet."
In the world of big business, we're used to high-ranking businessmen choosing to discuss even the most innocuous of subjects with tact and diplomacy. That unwritten rule appears to have been abandoned where Nokia's N-Gage is concerned; the Finnish company's much derided handheld console has been publicly castigated by none other than John Riccitiello, President of Electronic Arts.
When Riccitiello was asked for his feelings on the under-performing handheld, EA's man was unusually frank. "When I picked that thing up I knew it was a dog - it just feels stupid," commented the President of the world's biggest software publisher in an interview with Reuters.
The prominent businessman then mimicked the problems of using the game as a phone whilst in the middle of a game, and referred to sales of the unit as "non-meaningful".
It wasn't all bad news for Nokia; Riccitiello also opined that Nokia is one of the best design engineering companies he knew, adding that he thought Nokia would eventually succeed in the gaming sector. "Nokia will figure it out," he said. "It's just that they haven't figured it out yet."
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