Hey, Nokia: just because your own experiment with handheld gaming went pear-shaped doesn’t mean you can go advertising other people’s games on your phones.
Nintendo are currently investigating a commercial for Nokia’s N900 smartphone, which reportedly showed the phone happily playing a bunch of retro emulated games for the NES, SNES Game Boy and Spectrum, among others. The clear insinuation being that any ROMs involved in playing these games would, in 99% of cases, be illegally downloaded.
We’d point you towards the video, but it’s since been pulled.
Nintendo Investigating Possible Copyright Infringement By Nokia [Edge]
Nokia demonstrates retro emulator [Pocket Gamer]
Arthas
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 12:27 AMAlright so how many things can run these emulators? Certain Symbian phones , the PSP, computers etc. all have emulators.Its what the N900 is capable of so deal with it. N-gage flopped coz of low specs to then competition and not because it didn’t have any games or such.
Jay
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 9:32 AMPft well Australia aren’t getting the N900 anymore so what a way to rub it in our faces!!!!
bigkid
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 10:12 AMSo what if can run emulators, the buttons are still clumsy for gaming…. until Nokia can come up with a good keypad/buttons, Nokia still will not break into the game market.
Marsh Taylor
Monday, February 22, 2010 at 10:11 PMLook out for the N900, Nokia’s first Linux handset which will be unveiled at the Forum Nokia Developer Conference 2010 in Sydney next month.
I think at this conference, lots of new innovative mobile applications and technologies would be unveiled.