When you upgrade to a new phone, you can't take your N-Gage games with you - UPDATE!

UPDATE 23/5/2008: Nokia have changed their minds!

Apologies for the low number of updates recently, but I've been extremely busy, partly on the All About N-Gage site where I'm one of the writers.

However, something really big has now come up: Nokia has stated that if you upgrade from your N-Gage-compatible phone to a new N-Gage-compatible phone, you cannot take your games collection with you.

In other words: if you upgrade your phone but want to keep your N-Gage games, you'll have to buy them all over again!

See this article for more details (I wrote the basic article, but had a LOT of input from the other AAN writers too):

Nokia: "If you want your N-Gage games on your new phone, you'll have to buy them all over again."

Shocking isn't it?

I'm a huge N-Gage fan, I think it really does have the potential to become the biggest gaming platform ever, but it will never succeed if it wipes out people's game collections every time they upgrade their phone.