Arcade Collecting > Pinball
Avatar Pinball coming to a location near you
Xiaou2:
Hmm, seems we have a Reading Comprehension problem ehh?
Sears as in "RETAIL LOCATIONS"
Not "ONLINE ONLY" (as directly stated On the website link)
--- Quote ---You dont see these at the local Walmart, Sears, BestBuy, etc.
People have to see the thing for sale, and be able to test play it, for a sale to be made.
Very few people buy such an expensive thing without seeing/playing it.
--- End quote ---
Xiaou2:
--- Quote ---Sorry, but no. MM is not a magical machine that will save everything.
--- End quote ---
Never said it would fix everything. However, the number of Pins sold in Retail
would be a real jolt of needed business... as well as put Pinball into the mainstream
public.
Putting a pile of crap out there like Shrek (which as noted, isnt even on-location)
isnt going to do anything but Hurt public mainstream opinion. Its gota be
a really nice machine that both looks and plays very good.
Pinball Wizard:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on August 08, 2010, 02:46:58 am ---Hmm, seems we have a Reading Comprehension problem ehh?
Sears as in "RETAIL LOCATIONS"
Not "ONLINE ONLY" (as directly stated On the website link)
--- Quote ---You dont see these at the local Walmart, Sears, BestBuy, etc.
People have to see the thing for sale, and be able to test play it, for a sale to be made.
Very few people buy such an expensive thing without seeing/playing it.
--- End quote ---
Well I will admit I didn't read the sears link but for a short time apparently we had these in our sears.
--- End quote ---
RayB:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on August 08, 2010, 02:56:34 am --- Putting a pile of crap out there like Shrek (which as noted, isnt even on-location)
isnt going to do anything but Hurt public mainstream opinion. Its gota be
a really nice machine that both looks and plays very good.
--- End quote ---
Now why the hell is the average mainstream person out there going to think that Shrek is "a pile of crap"?? You put a brand new Shrek in a Walmart and it will look like a gold-encrusted Cadillac compared to the rest of the store merchandise. You seriously over-rate the average mainstream consumer, especially Walmart shoppers.
What will really happen is they will think its cool, but too expensive regardless if it's Shrek, Medieval Madness or whatever. Walmart doesn't even carry higher-end TVs. Sharper Image might be the better store to try this in.
Xiaou2:
Umm, more than half of America shops at wallmart... from typical moms, to electrical
engineers. Its called Convenience. They are Everywhere.
And Yes, Shrek is NOT going to be considered a Must Buy at +$4000. Anyone test
playing it for a mere 60 seconds will walk away unimpressed... in both look and play.
(Hence the reason why the few test locations have not sold crap)
However, you put a Williams IJ in store (or similar such as MM, TOM, CFTBL..etc.), able
to be played, and anyone playing them for a few minutes can easily get hooked and
change all their financial plans to accommodate a brand new pin.
Walmart can get away with selling consumers low priced Blenders... but its not
going to sell masses of +$3000 piles of crap. I dont care how un-informed people are.
Its really gota Pop to get anyones wallet to open that far... And Shrek does Not Pop.
They would have had much better luck trying to sell LOTR (which is a LOT nicer
visually, has a better theme, and plays OK - at least, Much better than Shrek, and even
that would pale in sales compared to something as simple as Haunted House, or something like TOM. Remember, the thing has to grab you to the point where you
simply cant live without it. Even LOTR does not have that level of draw IMOP.
Its much the same reason why people wont even go up to these machines On Location
to drop coin. They are horribly generic and craptastic. They dont incite much if any
desire to play at all.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version