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| DC
Power Stone |
| No
delays have been announced for Capcom's 3-D fighting game Power Stone.
The game is scheduled to ship on February 22 from distribution and NCS expects to take
delivery on February 24~25. Power Stone will be priced at US$58. |
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| Saturn
Titles for April |
Two
additional Saturn imports have been confirmed to ship in April. The other game that we are
expecting in April is Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 03. Pre-orders are welcome.
| Friends Shine of Youth |
NEC |
04/08 |
| Dating adventure ported from the PC.
Pre-orders will include a second disc containing a C/G library, an interactive drama game,
music collection and digital picture collection. Price is Y7,200 or US$70. |
| Ryouko's Chatting Room |
Datam |
04/22 |
| Ryouko Inoue of Roommate fame returns a
fourth time with a fan disc, interactive conversation scenarios with flexible input and
responses, a quiz game and picture collection. Price is Y5800 or US$55. |
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| Dreamcast
Keychain |
| Our
initial allotment of DC keychains have sold out but we are expecting restock later this
week when the item is reproduced. Orders submitted in the past couple of days and this
week will be reserved until the stock arrives. Thanks. |
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| Final
Fantasy VIII Products |
| A
number of customers have asked if we will carry FFVIII items that were not listed in the
two galleries that we posted last week. Note that the items that were posted are products
that we can source from distribution in Japan. Other items such as the leather jacket with
the woolly collar (Y49800; US$436 ) and the leather pants with the three
buckles on the right leg (Y39800; US$349) will be considered but there are
minimums on all goods and we doubt if we can wrestle up 10 customers that want to buy
these pieces of clothing. There is a package deal for the jacket and the
pants - if you buy both, the package price is only Y88000 or US$771. You
save Y1600 (US$14). |
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| Dreamcast
Preview Disc |
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Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered Dreamcast Magazine for the week of 03/19. Pre-orders
will close at the end of business today but everyone that submits a reservation request
this afternoon will be guaranteed a copy. NCS will ship the magazine on 03/08 to our
customers. To clarify pricing, normal subscribers will not be charged extra since they are
within our usual allotment of issues. Single issue orders and new orders will be charged
at US$15 + US$3.20 postal priority shipping per copy. |
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| Lunar
New Year |
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Many companies in Asia will take a three day vacation to celebrate the Lunar New Year
starting tonight. This year's representative animal is the Hare, or the Rabbit. The Year
of the Rabbit portends peace and reconciliation. Global conflicts will be settled and
houses will be put in order. So goes the lore since peace, in practice, may not be so
simple. The year 1999 by itself is considered a good year since 9 is a lucky number if you
subscribe to the theories of feng shui. 9 also sounds like longevity if spoken
phonetically in Chinese. Perhaps the economies in Asia will take this cue and rebound from
their respective recessions and financial woes this year. Business should be back to
normal in Asia by Friday, February 19th. |
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| Dreamcast
T-Shirt & Cap |
| The
popular DC t-shirt and cap ensemble have been restocked today at US$25.
This time around, we only have the set in black. This will be our last shipment for this
quarter since supplies are difficult to find now and a reproduction seems unlikely. We
will restock this item if supplies are available in the spring and summertime. |
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| Express
Mail Shipping |
| Our
company would like to publicly answer a couple of complaints regarding our use of Express
Mail Service on Friday to ship Final Fantasy VIII. In most cases, the service delivered
the game to our customers before 12:00PM and others before 03:00PM on Saturday.
There were some mishaps where Express Mail failed miserably and did not deliver on
Saturday but on Sunday. For a couple of cases, Express Mail appears to have lost some
parcels since we are unable to get tracking information on them. This is inexcusable but
it also happens from time to time with all couriers. We will attempt to
track these parcels today and see if they finally show up on USPS' tracking systems. EMS
is usually reliable but some customers had their weekends ruined because the service
failed in their case. We chose to use EMS because they have the ability to deliver on
Sundays. If UPS or Fedex miss a Saturday delivery commitment, they will try again on
Monday. EMS allows for some leeway when there is an unexpected contingency but they will
usually still deliver within the weekend. It was a judgement call on our part to go with
EMS to try and salvage our delayed shipment of FFVIII. If you must lay your blame and
vent, heap it upon our account at ncx@ix.netcom.com.
Nothing works perfectly, no matter how much we try to avoid problems, and for that we
sincerely apologize. |
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| Capital
Markets |
| No
trading session today but sentiment is bearish. Globex futures closed slightly negative
this morning and the bias is to sell positions. This week being options expiry may skew
things or magnify moves up and down. It will be interesting and short term direction will
be decided with tomorrow's session. Europe and Japan should provide general direction
until Tuesday's open. |
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NCS Weekly |
Tel
(718) 523-5774 |
Fax
(718) 523-7069 |
| Monday |
Power
Stone on schedule for next week, Saturn pre-orders for Friends, Ryouko Chatting Room |
| Tuesday |
Dracula
X Card Collection, Gameboy Color imports for April 28, Playstation Best Series March |
| Wednesday |
Konami
80's Arcade Gallery announced |
| Thursday |
Final
Fantasy Collection reminder, Smash Bros in stock, Restock on the way |
| Friday |
DC
Magazine 03/19 confirmation, DC Asian Cconsole next Monday, Restock available |
| Saturday |
Restock
listing, DC Magazine payment information |
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