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"Unfortunately..." - not good N-Gage news this year

When someone starts out "thinking positive" it can, of course, be good news. But there are ways of putting it, and "We know all of you are eager to get started with N-Gage First Access, and we are just as eager to get it into your hands..." has that unfortunate ring to it. You know it's going to be bad news even before the next paragraph:

Unfortunately, as can sometimes happen in software development, unexpected difficulties can occur. We have been doing an internal run with more than 1,000 global testers this week, and during this process we uncovered an issue we feel we need to address. Overall, the games and service are working smoothly, but because of this issue, we feel we could not release N-Gage First Access before the holidays as planned.

It's usual to say "full details at..." and quote the source at this point. Alas, the N-Gage blog has pretty much nothing more to say. What "difficulties?" Nothing. what "issue"? Nothing.