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@Pick Holder has said. Here is my views on it.
The Pin is an excellent pinball machine which could have been a massive success and excellent gateway drug, or if at the right price point, bought a number of number of people into "The Pin" market as buyers and ultimately, into the hobby. Stern have screwed that opportunity with the price, and really, their shocking marketing of the game.
It is stripped back both from a code point of view, and to some extent, toys wise even from a pro. Possibly too much on the code front for me, but I am a real code nut as everyone knows. If it is a smaller cabinet, I couldn't tell looking at it. The stripped back LCD was noticeable, but didn't ditract from the game. The speakers on the one I have played has been upgraded. So cannot comment on the audio.
For me, I always say it is the game that if I had a few friends over for a few beers (remember that), they would lean into. It's a lot of fun to play and that is what makes pinball, pinball.
I don't agree with the logic that it's the same money as a "real" pinball machine, this is a "real" pinball machine, it's just stripped back. This is where Stern got their marketing and price points wrong. If Stern would have called this the "Home" version, and lined it up as the Home, Pro, Premium, LE, everyones mindset about it would have been vastly different. As for the price point, it should site at £3k - £3.5k for a NIB and Stern would have cleaned up. As it uses componentry common with others, think of the economies of scale they could have achieved with this product out there at that price, especially in the even bigger USA market. We all love to wax lyrical about the Stern manufacturing capability, but if they truly, and I mean truly broke the back of the home market, that would be a different beast and require a much more streamlined factory than they have now, far more efficient and much more profit.
Do I think if it was priced correctly it would lead to cannabilisation (I guess an answer to do I think it is a "competitor" to Pro level machines). I think there would be some, but it would be around the edges. I think it would affect the Bally Williams market more, where first time owners getting into the hobby were looking at a game and thinking, hmmm an Fish Tales at £2.2k or a Star Wars home, NIB for £3k - no brainer.
I actually really like Star Wars and would love to have one, so would I have the "Home" over the "Pro". No. The depth of the shot multipliers, the path to Jedi, the choice of characters etc. is too much of a draw. However, to state the "Home" isn't a real pin is ********. It's just a stripped back game, with Stern seemingly wanting to do something with that market, but knowing what except to gouge gouge gouge.