More infromation will be added as it becomes available. For now there is the image and press releases.
Update:
Nokia have announced a partnership with Sega to develop games for this device. See the press release (second one) quoted below.
Nokia Press Release:
[quote]Nokia brings mobility to the Games Industry by making Rich Games Mobile
(November 04, 2002)
Nokia has today announced that it will bring mobility to the games industry by offering console quality games for its new mobile game deck device category. Nokia will expand the gaming experience by bringing a wireless multiplay platform to the market for both local and remote gaming. Based on an established business model in the games industry, Nokia will take rich mobile games to a new level by utilizing the full potential of mobility. As mobile network capacity increases over time, mobile gaming interactivity will also reach new levels together with game optimized mobile devices that offer consumers a truly rich, interactive mobile gaming experience.
"Games are an exciting way to communicate and connect with a larger community of like minded people. Rich mobile games, combined with connected near distance multiplayer gaming over Bluetooth and wide area gaming using cellular networks, opens the door for totally new gaming concepts. Mobility will add a whole new dimension to innovative and creative games concepts and will provide opportunities for the games and telecom industry alike,“ said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia Mobile Phones.“
Rich mobile gaming represents an appealing business opportunity for game publishers and operators. Nokia will be working with top games publishers and developers to provide the most appealing games catalogue for consumers. The rich games will be distributed on memory cards, and Nokia will also act as a game publisher. Operators will gain new revenue streams through increased data use and outbox memory game cards will complement operators’ current game business by bringing rich quality games to game optimized mobile devices.
As an initial step in the converging trends in enabling technologies, and also in devices, Nokia will introduce the first game optimized device in its mobile game deck category, the Nokia N-Gage(TM) mobile game deck device, together with branded game titles from top games publishers and developers in February 2003. The Nokia N-Gage(TM) mobile game deck will run on the Nokia Series 60 platform and the Symbian OS (Operating System). [/quote]
Sega-Nokia Press Release
[quote]Nokia and Sega, the world’s leading games publisher, today announced their collaboration to provide branded games for the Nokia’s new mobile game deck device category. According to this collaboration, Sega will develop games for the Nokia N-Gage(TM) mobile game deck, that will run on the Nokia Series 60 platform and the Symbian OS (Operating System). The branded outbox games will be available separately on memory cards.
"Nokia believes that games is the next big thing in mobility. The mobile game deck devices takes us to a new level of mobile interactive gaming, offering totally new and unique possibilities that were not previously available in this quality for publishers or end-users. We are excited to provide rich, high quality games from world known game publishers such as Sega. Sega offers an excellent variety of games with several genres,” said Ilkka Raiskinen Senior Vice President, Entertainment and Media Business Unit, Nokia Mobile Phones
“It is our pleasure to join hands with Nokia for their innovative project,” said Tetsu Kayama, Chief Operating Officer, Sega Corporation. “We promote a multiplatform strategy to supply content to all type of hardware globally and we believe that Nokia and us will create the new-genre of mobile games.”[/quote]