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Why do so many of your posts go to an external site ?
Rubbish
People can do what they want with the cash they earn.
Does this mean you shouldnt buy a shaker motor? A colordmd? Mirror blades?
What age qualifies as a 'younger millenial'?It'll continue as long as gullable suckers are willing to throw money at Stern. Unfortunately it won't last long anyway.
What I see of younger millenials getting into pinball and starting their collections, there's still more interest in 90's DMD's because of the throwback to their childhood. They aren't the ones buying crap NIB from Stern. So as the older generation die out or sell off their collections, there'll be fewer and fewer people buying this tiered NIB stuff.
It's already happening. The reason why Stern is doing this is because sales numbers are dropping and it's an attempt to mop up every penny they can before the whole thing falls off a cliff. It's also obvious they're going for licenses now which appeal to younger people.
The writing is on the wall.
What information are you basing that on, does anyone have any reliable production figures for Stern games over recent years?The reason why Stern is doing this is because sales numbers are dropping
What age qualifies as a 'younger millenial'?
I went to Uni in the 90s - that's pushing 30 years ago.
Let's get one thing straight. Bally Williams etc did not go out of business because they packed too many features into their games and it became unsustainable. They went out of business because video games arrived on the scene. No fault of their own. They were at their peak. And then a meteorite hit.
Born between 1981 to 1996 are millenials. I'm a child of 1984 so at 35 I'm closer to the older portion. I know some guys in the mid to late 20's bracket who are just starting to build up their pinball collections and aren't interested in new Sterns. Not because of cost. It's all about the 90's nostalgia for them.
If you went to Uni in the early 90's then I suppose that makes you Generation X (born 1965 to 1980). We are the last 2 groups in the market for pinballs because Baby Boomers are aging out, and Generation Z (born 1997 to 2010) have no interest in pinball whatsoever. They've only ever used digital devices since the day they were born and no memory of pins out in the wild.
You could argue they didn't even go out of business, just decided to stop making them becuase slot machine were more profitable.
IMHO a major factor in the death of pinball was the Playstation.
PS1 was a complete game-changer and meant that arcade quality games were available to home users for the first time.
Let's get one thing straight. Bally Williams etc did not go out of business because they packed too many features into their games and it became unsustainable. They went out of business because video games arrived on the scene. No fault of their own. They were at their peak. And then a meteorite hit.
LOL
They made HUGE games PACKED full of stuff that NOBODY wanted to play.
Stern saved their company (and probably the whole of pinball) because they made games with less stuff in them that NOBODY wanted to play.
Nobody even got to see those later machines on location (in this country at least). I certainly never did. After Addams Family it was pretty much over.