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To: Robert G. Harrell who wrote (13541)	2/24/2000 10:03:00 AM
From: blankmind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14266

this could turn into an ugly day. low volume is moving the stock and there is that high short interest. it will be interesting to see what happens if this trend continues as we saw the positive q and positive cc.

To: Robert G. Harrell who wrote (13541)	2/24/2000 1:20:00 PM
From: Mr. Aloha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14266

My guess is the development costs.. with Playstation II and all the other games THQ is working on. But I think they're being too conservative with SmackDown sales etc.. I can see a decrease with Q1 because of WCW loading last year but I can't see that large of a decrease in Q2 over last year? The reviews of Smackdown have been REALLY positive. They will announce its shipment next week. It looks like THQ will sell to N64 like it did to gameboy while everyone else left the market.

To: Robert G. Harrell who wrote (13541)	2/25/2000 10:14:00 AM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 14266

<<For the life of me, I can't understand where the big cuts in estimates for the two quarters came from.>> From MCV mcvnow.com =============================== ... However, Farrell said he expects the results for the upcoming first and second quarters to be lower than those for the first half of 1999. This is primarily because THQ sold off its remaining inventory of WCW-branded wrestling titles early last year as it prepared to switch to titles bearing the WWF banner. ...