Some N-Gage fans wrote of their dismay after hearing that the forum will be shut down. "A sad day indeed," a user going by the name nce007 wrote on the forum. That user and others seemed unimpressed with Ovi. "Ovi cannot replace N-Gage in my opinion," nce007 wrote.

"I just cannot believe that such a wonderful platform which had great potential is being phased away in such a manner to Ovi?" wrote another user who goes by apurvguptal.

Nokia has also been toying with the strategy behind Ovi since it launched last year. Ovi.com is a central site where people can find various services hosted by Nokia, including photo-sharing, e-mail, calendar and navigation services. Ovi.com now includes Nokia's new application store. But earlier this year, Nokia shut down a Seattle office that was developing an online sharing service, halted investment in the Ovi Share photo-sharing service and shut down Mosh, a social-networking site.