EA Mobile Chief Slams Nokia

Electronic Arts, the top gaming publisher and a Nokia N-Gage partner, isn’t too happy about Nokia’s certification process, it seems. MocoNews reports that Peter Parmenter, director of worldwide OEM at EA Mobile, called the handset maker’s efforts so far a “soft launch.”

“The one-build, multiple-handsets dream that we thought N-Gage was going to be is maybe not quite polished yet,” he said in an interview at Nokia’s gaming summit in Rome. “As a publisher, we will make twice the revenue from selling an iPhone game in Italy than we will from selling an N-Gage game at the same price… We need to work together on the economics.”

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