PG product glut

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Hi Larry,

Yes, "winter" had better mean Feb/March. If not I may retire.

All,

I am curious about the strategy here... is Mike giving up completely on distributor orders, and planning on an APL that lives off short production runs of many different new titles? If so, I question if that is viable in the long run; the strain on the design / development / testing folks is probably high already (although PG has 2-4 active designers)?

On the other hand... perhaps this is a short-term plan, to enable and accelerate shipment of the remaining old PG / other game pre-orders. I'm assuming the cost to ship two games, even overseas, is not much different than the cost to ship one, so maybe the hope with the PG bounty is, most folks with with a remaining Kursk (one or both volumes) will buy a new game or two, and take the sting out of the effective loss on making good on the pre-order... and then once the pre-orders are cleared, perhaps the new product pace will settle down.

Anyone local to Mike have any sharable insights?

-Jim