Arcade Collecting > Pinball
Stern layoffs
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on November 12, 2008, 09:41:37 pm --- Picking such a theme is either extreme stupidity on Sterns part... or the Only way they
can get STUPID bankers to give them any money at all. Such Idiocy cant last much
longer... or at least... it shouldnt.
--- End quote ---
You know, I can't find anything to argue with in that statement ... which is sad on a number of different levels ...
;)
Karetaker:
I'm surprised it didn't end when Williams/Bally quit production. Pinball's days have been numbered. It's just a matter of time. Any pinball manufacture needs operators to buy pins. Collectors can't save them. Operators don't want to buy them anymore because they don't make money. Sure, you find the occasional spot that does well. But, those locations are few and far between these days. People like the idea of pinball machines but don't play them on location much anymore. The drunks will scream for them. The bar owner who of course knows everything starts barking at the operator. You take one in to appease the location and it makes $20 in two weeks. You hand the location their share and you are just losing money on it. It's heading nowhere but south after that. There are many pieces out there that can sit in the same space and make more money. Pins just aren't profitable for operators. They get sold into the home market. That makes it worse because who wants to go out and play pinball when the have one of their own. New pinball machines will become a thing of the past. The only question is when.
Namco:
Screw GM. They should bailout the Pinball industry.
CheffoJeffo:
Steve Ritchie's take on it ... when I was reading it, I thought he was channeling Xiaou2 ...
http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.games.pinball/msg/557be0c8fd315b20?hl=en
ChadTower:
I played CSI on saturday... game had like 40 plays on it and the upper flipper fried itself. :banghead:
It does seem like it might be a decent game but sure doesn't look well built.
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