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Nokia to make games for Xbox Live Arcade?

That's what Aki Jarvilehto said at Develop 2008

Nokia to make games for Xbox Live Arcade?
By Stuart Dredge
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N-Gage

Nokia is investigating making games for Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. No, really.

At least, that's what Nokia's Aki Jarvilehto said during a panel session at today's Develop Mobile 2008 conference in Brighton.

His exact words were that Nokia is looking into concepts "where we use the same assets for Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation Online". That's referring to the same assets used for N-Gage games.

It's a pretty exciting thought, and one that ties in with Nokia's launch strategy for Reset Generation, which is already out as a PC download, and may appear as a Facebook application too.

Could Nokia really port N-Gage games to Xbox Live Arcade though? One developer source expressed wariness tonight, saying that Microsoft is cautious when it comes to Xbox Live Arcade games being played in real-time against players on other platforms.

Still, it's an intriguing thought. Watch this space...

Stuart Dredge
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Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)