I've owned both a Saturn and Dreamcast, and it's very crude to compare them to the N-Gage. The DC and SAT both sold 10 mil, the N-Gage sold 300,000 or so.
With the Saturn, I remember there being very few launch games, and the games that came out afterwards were of little interest to me. All I ever bought were a couple Arcade ports, and there were no games to talk about with other people.
With the Dreamcast, I remember buying Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, and Hydro Thunder. I was almost positive the Dreamcast was going to do far better than the Saturn. The killing blow had to be when I heard Half Life was going to be cancelled for the system and that 3rd party support was leaving. It was a crushing blow. I played Soul Calibur with friends until I bought Super Smash Bros. Melee for Christmas 2001.
The worst part of the failure for SAT and DC was the knowledge that you just wasted a ton of money on a console that looked like it would have long legs. I gave into the Saturn hype and Sega's sly advertising. I wasn't fooled by the Dreamcast, but ended up buying it for the games. It's a really bad feeling, but I'm happy with my PS2, so no grudges.
As for the N-Gage, who actually bought that?
Oh, and why is everyone talking about downloading MP3s?
