New Games Phone from Nokia and Sega

As an initial step in the converging trends in enabling technologies, and also in devices, Nokia is to introduce the first game optimized device in its mobile game deck category, the Nokia N-Gage mobile game deck device, together with branded game titles from top games publishers and developers in February 2003. The Nokia N-Gage mobile game deck will run on the Nokia Series 60 platform and the Symbian OS (Operating System).

Nokia and Sega are also to jointly 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 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"

Posted to the site on 5th November 2002