Fresh from his speech at GDC yesterday, Nokia's head of entertainment Tero Ojanpera has confirmed that N-Gage will be part of the company's Ovi Store after all.
"We'll make those N-Gage games, from the discovery point of view, available through the Ovi store," he tells Reuters, while stressing that N-Gage will also remain as a separate sales channel.
"What we are trying to do with the Ovi store is, rather than having all these different channels for discovery, we'll move more and more under this Ovi brand and umbrella."
That means N-Gage publishers will benefit from having their titles exposed to millions of people, although they won't benefit from the more generous 70-30 revenue-share split being offered to Ovi Store developers.
Talking of revenue-share... Ojanpera apparently confirmed to Reuters that developers will only get that 70 per cent rev-share from Ovi Store sales when consumers pay by credit card. If they choose operator billing, the developer will get less.
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