"Less than 5,000 units of Nokia N-Gage hardware were sold in the United States in the system's first week of release, according to independent research firm Arcadia Research. That figure takes into account all retail locations that sold the N-Gage, including both videogame specialty retailers and cellular phone retailers," according to 1Up.
"We've sold around 400,000 N-Gage in the first two weeks," Ilkka Raiskinen, senior vice president entertainment and media at Nokia Mobile Phones, told Reuters in a telephone interview. The number refers to models Nokia has sold to shops and other retail outlets since the launch on October 7, says Reuters. "Analysts were not very impressed with Nokia's initial sales."
Comment: 5,000 US sales could reasonably be regarded as disastrous.
