THE LATEST NEWS FROM APRIL 2003

However, despite the seriousness with which the mobile phone giant approached the venture, the assembled masses were unconvinced that it could topple the Game Boy Advance. A report in Edge claimed that it “didn’t see anything there to persuade it that the N-Gage will be a serious rival to Nintendo’s market-monopolising platform”. The system’s 3D performance was “workable, if not aesthetically delightful” in Tomb Raider and “unplayable” in Super Monkey Ball, while a “hostage-style video clip” of Yuji Naka endorsing the hardware “as if at gunpoint”