For regular cell phones, it's pretty much the same thing. When you buy a game on Phone A, Phone B most likely won't be compatible with the version of the game optimized for Phone A.
You have a point, except that none of these other phones are using their brand as a gaming platform. N-gage is.
While it would make sense to have to repurchase the same game for a different platform (say, having to buy GTAIV again for PS3 if you already own it for 360) this is a universal platform—just in multiple handsets. So if I get the same platform in a different shell, I should not have to repurchase. Using the console analogy again, that would be like repurchasing my PS2 library if I switch from the large one to a slimline.
A transfer probably isn't totally ruled out, but I wouldn't be surprised if Nokia charged a microtransaction for the transfers.
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For regular cell phones, it's pretty much the same thing. When you buy a game on Phone A, Phone B most likely won't be compatible with the version of the game optimized for Phone A.
--James
You have a point, except that none of these other phones are using their brand as a gaming platform. N-gage is.
While it would make sense to have to repurchase the same game for a different platform (say, having to buy GTAIV again for PS3 if you already own it for 360) this is a universal platform—just in multiple handsets. So if I get the same platform in a different shell, I should not have to repurchase. Using the console analogy again, that would be like repurchasing my PS2 library if I switch from the large one to a slimline.
A transfer probably isn't totally ruled out, but I wouldn't be surprised if Nokia charged a microtransaction for the transfers.