To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2061 ) 5/2/1999 2:06:00 PM From: Timothy Detjens Respond to of 2443
Talk N' Play *finally* shows up at a local CompUSA! Yes, that's right - 12 weeks after the announcement it finally arrives. Arrived sometime during the week, as it wasn't there last week. Sits with the rest of the internet voice com and collaboration software. A fair amount of copies - 12 - for this store. Goody goody. Still not at Babbages or EB, but I hope it gets there soon. Now the conference rate should fly up! BTW, Hausmann "informed" investors on the CC of the explanation for Thrustmaster's extremely speedy delivery of this key product by saying that the way it works it that software is not sold directly to stores, unlike their hardware, making it difficult to get straight to market. Thus an approximately six week delay. I'll pretend not to notice that Fry's somehow got it in early February - maybe they have faster trucks? Well, what I find that is most interesting is he sells this as the way it works. Well, let's see how long other game software takes. This was announced on April 21, and is on www.ogr.com PopTop Software announced today that Railroad Tycoon: The Second Century and Railroad Tycoon II for the Macintosh have gone gold and should be appearing in stores on April 26. 5 days from gold. You see it in your stores now. Watch for even the Baldur's gate expansion pack, which got delayed due to a bug - bet it even gets there quicker. Of course, I would never suggest that maybe how things work for a company on a shoe string budget with no previous software experience might just be different from established software players with competence and established connections in this area. You can see that for yourself.