PSP vs N-Gage

PSP has amassed impressive slate of titles in this short time that it has been on the market. Surely it didn’t happen in a snap, but these games have been in development for a long time. Still it is interesting to watch, how much more buzz they are able to raise on the field, compared to the Nokia’s N-Gage.

Unlike PSP, N-Gage came to the market without the strong support of game brand. Nokia had only one advantage – wireless gaming. It didn’t really caught on, because nobody knew with whom they could play wirelessly, nobody had the deck. Pretty hard to convince your buddy that it is super cool device – Hey, it doesn’t even work.

For a portable device, PSP boasts with huge screen that is very easy to show to your friend. “Best bloody piece of entertainment technology here my friend”, and everybody will believe you, because it has the name, it has the looks, it has the wireless hook-up, and you know do know people who already have it, now all it needs are good games.

I’m afraid that N-Gage just can’t compete against PSP, because the game name buzz is not there. Moderate price cuts do work with Nokia phones – Nokia phone in sale, sure, I’ll take two. N-Gage must engage the market, give it out for free or just do anything.