The original Nokia N-Gage was met with harsh criticism on both form and function. Even 2004’s revised model failed to bring any kind of significant attention to the platform. Though they did give it an earnest try, Nokia has decided to drop their ultimately unsuccessful mobile phone/portable gaming console hybrid after over six years of being lame and undesirable.

The announcement game in a Question and Answer-style post on the N-Gage blog about the new Ovi Store, a hub for various kinds of games for Nokia products. Deciding to just be blunt, this statement is found shortly after the introductory paragraph:

“We will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform.”

N-Gage.com and the N-Gage arena are set to be open throughout the year of 2010, and the N-Gage Store will be available through September of 2010. After that, N-Gage users will find themselves left with a device that is even more useless than it was the very day they purchased it.

Tags: Certain Conclusions, Death, Inevitability, N-Gage, Nokia, Still Wondering Why This Hadn't Happened Long Ago

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