Avengers will be released before Xmas when Santa slides down the chimney, but AMD have said Avengers wont be offloaded n available here in OZ til end Jan/mid feb...subject to Stern sticking with their currently announced stock production schedules.

No one is waiting for WOZ for any titles release cause respectfully, Stern will have designed and sold John Borgs new model which is due out in spring(USA time) before the WOZ production has even caught up n finished what he has sold already (aprox 1100 units of WOZ).
WOZ may be released in very small numbers (fifty for the show in the USA in 4 weeks time for dealers to look/play with etc) and another 50 machines by early Jan, but they are only just recieving computer boards for the game in the next few weeks, and large numbers of WOZ machines to the public wont happen in my mind really to Feb onwards next year, plus some time.

The more machines/titles/varied stock Stern releases before WOZ starts hitting the streets, the better for Stern.

WHY ? because JJP have peoples monies for the 1,000 Emerald City machine already, and perhaps 100 or so Std models, but in order to get another 1,000 sales of Std WOZ m,achines (which JJP need) they will now have to compete with buyers also looking at a AC/DC, X Men, Avengers and so on etc.

mmm.. dont quite agree. Stern brought out ACDC to coincide with the WOZ release and hit JJP sales with a cracker of a title that pretty much had guaranteed sales.. he brought in the big guns for this namely Steve Ritchie and dropped the price to a point where im struggling to see any real profit for Stern... it would have been a clever move on Gary's behalf had WOZ been released on time, but it didnt happen.
Now Stern have to release just as good titles at around the same price.. problem is that we know now what to expect from Stern with these next titles.. it will be like ACDC but with different pictures.
I dont see these Stern titles touching JJP's sales at all.. many non Stern buyers will be in for WOZ, the demand for the LE's is unreal, many Stern buyers will also buy WOZ or the next JJP title. i certainly dont think Jack is concerned with what Gary is up to. I do however think Gary is very nervous with what he sees jack doing