N-gauge, too expensive to compete?

[Glitchny]

the new Nokia N-gauge, which they are trying to use to attack the GameBoy market with has finnaly been given a price. its selling at $299 with games around 30-40 now the graphics may be better and it has an mp3 player and a phone in it. But it isnt very good looking and marketing it as a game machine to compete with the gameboy when the GBA is 80 dollars is a little extreme. I think that this wiull end up jsut like every other compititor that has tried to go against the GB, GBC, GBA. anyone else got an opinion?

link to the price anouccment
Link to the main site << cna you imagine talking on that?

I just think it is too expensive for the GBA's core market (teens and younger) to survive in the market

 

[mchammer187]

ugly

i would consider it if i didnt already have a cell phone and an ipod

 

[Lucky]

if it had a tv tuner, pda, and blackberry built in it'd be worth it.

 

[Anubis]

its got too many buttons

 

[Storm]

They didnt demo it or anything... plus its not supposed to come out til 2004. Its just an annoucement nothing more. Based on that I do think its too expensive.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Anyone remember the Atari Lynx?

Yeah. That's what I thought.



- M4H

 

[zippy]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Anyone remember the Atari Lynx?

Yeah. That's what I thought.



- M4H

That thing rocked! When it was plugged into a wall.

 

[ElFenix]

you know... people say they want to do all sorts of things on one device... but when you get down to it each device usually has a form factor most suitable to it, and usually the form factors aren't very compatible.

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: zippy

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Anyone remember the Atari Lynx?

Yeah. That's what I thought.



- M4H

That thing rocked! When it was plugged into a wall.

Seriously. Color screen usually suck power like nobody's business. I'm impressed with the lighting on the GBA SP/afterburner that isn't significantly detrimental to battery life. The screen on my Sanyo 5300 is beautiful but it too is a battery hog when the backlight is on.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Rats, I thought this was about model trains. Now that is a hobby that rocks!