probably a bit premature to sound the death knell for Nokia's
current generation of the N-Gage
platform, but it certainly doesn't bode well that they've wound
down operations at the Vancouver, British Columbia-based studio
responsible for many games stretching back to N-Gage's origins. At
this point, it could simply mean that Nokia no longer wishes to be
tied up in the hard-knock world of game development, admitting that
other operations like EA are probably better off fighting that
fight -- but ultimately, with the Ovi Store
calling into question N-Gage's very reason for being, this could be
the beginning of yet another fundamental shift in Espoo's gaming
strategy. Time will tell, but in the meantime, there are 100 Nokia
staffers up in Canada whose reassignments to other posts remain to
be settled.
[Via: Engadgetmobile ]
