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Finance Article - 1 Million cabinets sold, Sales rising [UPDATE :2 million sold]

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negative1:

--- Quote from: Phreakwars on December 25, 2020, 04:48:25 am ---Give it another 6 months to a year and you'll see a gigantic influx of people coming in on reddit or even here wanting to mod them. I say they should be smarter about it and come out with a DLC type A1U. Not right now though, more money to be made putting the physical cabs out there. But later on, offer a new logic board upgrade or something that can be connected to Wi-Fi for DLC games and charge for those by the game.

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the number of people modding will always be very low compared to people that just buy
them and plug them in.

in fact, a lot of people don't even play the games more than a few times.

its basically just to build up peoples mancaves, mini arcades to have them.

arcade 1up will always be offering limited cabinets, and small numbers of games,
there's plenty of other people like atgames, and iircade that are doing the multicades,
so there's no need for them to do that.

especially when they can profit a lot more on people that buy specific cabinets, as opposed
for those that just want more games.

anybody that wants more games can easily mod it if they are so inclined.

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negative1:
arcade 1up sales did incredibly well last year:

Mat Piscatella
@MatPiscatella
Arcade Cabinets were one of the better Hardware performers in US Video Games during Q4. Double digit growth, ranking 4th in hardware dollars, trailing only Switch, PS4 and Xbox One. The Plug N Play segment, on the other hand, experienced sharp declines.

[Executive Director & Video Game Industry Advisor, The NPD Group. Formerly of WB Games & Activision. MBA-SDSU Aztec for Life. Go Padres. Tom Nook is good. He/Him]

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leapinlew:
Time to take a trip down memory lane!


--- Quote from: Zebra on February 24, 2019, 04:07:39 pm ---At this point the jury is pretty much out with this product. There was a lot of initial excitement and buzz but poor implementation seems to have killed off any enthusiasm. Now they are relegated to the bargain bins of history...

It would be easy to conclude "there was no real market for it" but I can't help thinking that, in the hands of a real gamer, it had potential.

For me, the problem started with poor game choice. We could all play better versions of pacman and SF2 in mame for free. But... if they can secure licenses for SF2 and Pacman, surely they could have gotten Ridge Racer, Daytona, Star Wars Trilogy, T2 and other dedicated arcades. Ones where they could have added value with decent controls. Value above and beyond mame.

I might have been persuaded to part with cash for a pair of 3/4 or 2/3 size Daytona cabs that could be linked for head to head play... Or some Star Wars cabs with a real analog yoke wheel stick thingy.

What do you guys think? Potential for the idea or was it always doomed to fail?

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yotsuya:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on January 19, 2021, 10:02:41 pm ---Time to take a trip down memory lane!


--- Quote from: Zebra on February 24, 2019, 04:07:39 pm ---At this point the jury is pretty much out with this product. There was a lot of initial excitement and buzz but poor implementation seems to have killed off any enthusiasm. Now they are relegated to the bargain bins of history...

It would be easy to conclude "there was no real market for it" but I can't help thinking that, in the hands of a real gamer, it had potential.

For me, the problem started with poor game choice. We could all play better versions of pacman and SF2 in mame for free. But... if they can secure licenses for SF2 and Pacman, surely they could have gotten Ridge Racer, Daytona, Star Wars Trilogy, T2 and other dedicated arcades. Ones where they could have added value with decent controls. Value above and beyond mame.

I might have been persuaded to part with cash for a pair of 3/4 or 2/3 size Daytona cabs that could be linked for head to head play... Or some Star Wars cabs with a real analog yoke wheel stick thingy.

What do you guys think? Potential for the idea or was it always doomed to fail?

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That color doesn’t look good on you.

I heard 90% of the purchases were wives and moms who bought them as gifts because “I know you liked the Atari games when you were little.”

:)


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jennifer:
It would be a bit shortsighted not to see the writing on the wall, They are selling machines in a climate where few are stepping up to the challenge and geared toward kids it is the perfect storm...Soooo as for the writing on that wall it says..."For a good time call Jennifer" 😬

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