The GDC Podcast is Here
During this week’s Game Developer’s Conference, a group of Nokia managers gathered in an undisclosed location to talk about the next generation of N-Gage.
The questions on this podcast came from you, the readers of this blog and members of the N-Gage Arena community, as well as Jon Jordan from Pocket Gamer, who acted as moderator. The discussion covered everything from N-Gage hardware, 3D chips, new games, and the N-Gage SDK and its roadmap.
Interviewed were:
- Jaakko Kaidesoja, Director, Play New, Nokia Multimedia
- Gregg Sauter, Director of Third Party Publishing for the N-Gage Platform
- Mark Ollila, Director of Technology & Strategy and Nokia Games Publishing
The podcast was recorded as an mp3 file, and produced by Karl Long, Nokia’s web/social media integration manager.
Why not download it to your Nseries device and give it a listen? ;) To download the podcast, right click and choose ’save as’:
- Future Watch GDC Podcast (12.7 MB, 27:06 minutes)
March 7th, 2007 at 3:09 am
看到没有N-GAGE 2的消息,我差点吐血.实在太意外的,一年来我一直期待的东西最后还是消失了.
也许用N-GAGE做为平台来的确能给NOKIA带来更多的利益,但最终糟糕的手感和操作和过时的画面只能让NOKIA成为”劣质游戏的发行商”根本无法与PSP和NDS相比.
我觉得N-GAGE这个想法很好,但没有N-GAGE 2这个核心肯定无法成功,我认为NOKIA应该推出高性能的N-GAGE 2并且以性能为标准发行两种游戏标准.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Ugh, I hate podcasts so much. Why is everything going the video/audio route today on internet when text is still the more superior/comfortable way?
Could someone be so kind and write down the important bits please.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:18 am
没有以N-GAGE 2为核心的N-GAGE软件平台只能沦落为手机游戏的代表,而不会成为PS,X-BOX,NEITOID那样的经典.NOKIA也会因为糟糕的操作和过时的画面成为低质游戏(手机游戏)的代表.
NOKIA应该发行N-GAGE 2就像2005E3的那部概念机.游戏方面可以以机器性能为标准采用两种游戏标准.
March 7th, 2007 at 6:19 am
I want n-gage 2.
March 7th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Actually Kazutoyo, all of our GDC updates except one have been text, so not to worry.
March 7th, 2007 at 11:28 am
new n-gage 2
new n-gage 2
new n-gage 2
March 7th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
I don’t know what is more embarrasing:
Nobody really knew which version of Symbian it ran on.
Mark couldn’t name a single Nokia game off the top of his head - he’s the Director of Nokia Games Publishing (and Jaakko called Creatures of The Deep “our fishing game”)
The overall feeling of ‘ho-hum’ that came through the entire interview. I’ve seen more excitement at a Sony keynote.
I don’t want to hear about platforms, devices, partners, brands and target consumers. I want to hear about mobile games.
Trip may have admitted to being a cockroach at GDC, but at least he talked about people having fun.
March 9th, 2007 at 2:08 am
Hi guys
This is for the likes of “KAZOTOYO” who were waiting for the results of the Interview. I’ve made a text version of the interview in Podcast form, and it can be downloaded from the link below. It’s more than half complete, and is a little time consuming. I’ve been quite thorough with word for word conversion, and was not sure with who was speaking at a time. If people like it and want it completed, I wouldn’t mind getting it finished in a day or so. I know this kind of goes against the true meaning of a podcast but Like me I’m sure people were anticipating the results and can use it as a reference form.
I hope this is O.K with you Ikona, I don’t see my self doing this again in the near future.
(Karl here, sorry, I had to delete that download link because the amount of popups generated by the download host, a really good summary of the podcast can be found at all about symbian here)
July 9th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Heh PSP Podcoast in my site
February 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
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