Quoted from Cornelius:But this is about pinball, and as a Pinside noob, I'm having a hard time who is saying anything even remotely close to the truth and who is just pumping out white noise. Seems all a bit "Sky is falling" if you were to ask me.
the sky may not be falling, but there have been some very high profile failures that have cost several people a significant amount of money...
the only person who has been able to produce a significant number of machines (other than gary) is jack, and anecdotal evidence would suggest that it is not all sunshine and roses at jjp...
personally, i think that one or two of the little guys will carve out their niche (charlie already has) producing machines in small numbers... how long they will remain interested in doing so remains to be seen...
most of the others have already either failed or are well on their way there... and some of the characters involved in those failures (wes upchurch in the case of vonnied, kevin kulek in the case skitb, et.al.) have left a very bad taste in people's mouths... and the disaster that is zidware adds to that bad taste, especially since the person involved was a "known" industry guy...
so again, while the sky may not be falling, there have been some damn big hailstones lately...
i don't remember the last time i went on a ride... unless you count riding the monorail for 2 straight hours drunk as a skunk a "ride"... 
