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| Dreamcast
2Q Schedule |
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Sega's schedule for the second quarter of 1999 appears spotty with only three games
expected next month. Get Bass ships next week, Web Mystery
ships on April 6 and Red Line Racer ships on April 27. The next scheduled
games in May come late in the month on 05/25 with Shutoko Battle and Elemental
Gimmick Gear. On 05/27, Dynamite Deka 2 is expected to ship. Buggy
Heat is now expected sometime in June and Shenmu, King
of Fighters 98 DM, Space Griffon are all listed as 2Q TBA. NCS
will post the complete, updated 2Q schedule next Monday and scrap the current Dreamcast
schedule that we have on-line since almost everything on that listing has shipped. |
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| Get
Bass |
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Players will be able to reel in Sega's arcade fishing game next week. Please note that the
special package with the motion sensitive fishing controller is a Y9800 box set and retail
may very well end up in the US$98 range. Carriage charges for each fishing rod + game is
easily 10% of the trade cost due to the oversize packaging. Please re-confirm pre-orders
based on this new information. |
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| Next
Week, Monday |
| NGP
Color Puzzle Bobble Mini (US$35) is slated for delivery
along with the new blue Skeleton Saturn. It appears that Sega
manufactured fewer Skeletons than originally planned and our pre-order will be cut but we
should have no problems fulfilling pre-orders that we have accepted thus far. The Skeleton
will price to retail at US$205. |
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| Music
CDs and Miscellany |
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Apologies for not posting our music CD collection up yet. This week has been a weird one
that stole precious time away from our company. We will post everything on Monday's
update. |
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| Yen
Equilibrium |
08:42AM |
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We're up to Y119.20 but have upped our sell stop to Y119. It may run further but a profit
is a profit and we can always open new positions if our stops are triggered. We have an
automatic sell trigger at Y121 at which point we'll stand aside and evaluate the degree of
market waffling. Flipping short would not be anathema since this forex thing oscillates
somewhat predictably. |
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| Playstation Transparent Casing |
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There is no honor in Asia. Sigh. NCS will speed things up and bring in our transparent
Playstation casings next week. We had hoped that our manufacturer would not start selling
them to other vendors or share the mold in Asia but they have not kept their promise.
Business is business but this was not cool to do. National Console will have the following
Playstation casing colors next week: |
| Crystal
clear |
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| Smoky
grey |
| Transparent blue |
| Transparent
purple |
| Transparent
green |
| Due to the speed-up of
bringing these to market, we will only have the casing for the SCPH-5001 to SCPH-7501
models available. Casings for the SCPH-1000 through SCPH-3000 will be available later.
NCS' charge for the casing by itself is $29 which includes the complete shell. If you want
us to swap the Playstation from your old casing to the new casing, we charge $39 which
includes return shipping with UPS Ground. |
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| Capital
Markets |
09:01AM |
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We're on the sidelines. No plans to buy in either long or short at this point but we look
for resolution to the volatility. |
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