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Downtime
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spring rolls around, the warmer weather coincides with Golden
Week in Japan. From April 29 to May 5, businesses close,
citizens observe/celebrate, and vacations are taken. Green Day
(Midori no hi) kicked off the festivities this past Sunday and
the holiday week caps on Saturday with Children's Day (Kodomo
no hi). Green Day honors nature and the environment while
Children's Day aka Boy's Festival celebrates the sons of
families. Daughters aren't left out, they celebrate Girl's
Festival on May 3.
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Golden Week beats the New Year (Shogatsu) handily when it
comes to the length of holiday. New Year runs from January 1
to 3 and Golden Week spans the duration of seven
days. The wheels should begin spinning again next week.
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| Gran
Turismo 3 A-Spec Tomorrow |
GT
Force Wheel
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| Restock
supplies of GT3 are due tomorrow and NCS expects to fill all
outstanding orders and any new orders for this game by Friday
afternoon. Due to the necessity of purchasing GT3 from
alternative vendors because of the holiday in Japan, the price
is now set at US$78 for this second shipment. Pricing should
return to normal when our third shipment arrives within the
next 2-3 weeks. New online
orders are welcome today to ship on Friday morning. Each
copy of GT3 includes the bonus reference book.
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NCS
expects restock of the GT Force controller within 2 weeks. We
cast doubts on the bandied reports of 500,000 units sold in
the past week but it's definitely over 180,000 units, which is
phenomenal.
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| Wonderswan
Color + Final Fantasy 2 |
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WSC shipments
didn't make it in this morning and NCS now expects delivery on
Friday morning. Both the special deluxe package and the Final
Fantasy 2 game are due and we'll process and ship pre-orders
upon arrival. New reservations are welcome for either product
by e-mail
request today. Pricing for the deluxe package is set at US$135
and at US$53 for the game only.
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The
Wonderswan's weapon against the GBA assault remains Square
pledge of software support. Most publishers appear to sit
squarely with Nintendo.
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