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I wonder if it is just a matter of time before CGC starts making new titles in addition to their remakes.
I know they made that bare bones Vacation game several years ago, but I would not be surprised to see within 5 years some licensed games from CGC with modern features on par with Stern games.
Quoted from Luckydogg420:A can't see them setting up a production line for just a couple games.
? Won't they need a production line to build AFMR? My understanding is that CGC builds several things.
The last time I looked at serial numbers, Stern was doing around 5000 Stern games a year. CGC seems to be doing about 500 to 1000 a year. Heighway likely has done about 100 a year for the last two years. Spooky maybe around 250 a year. JJP has probably done about 3500 WOZ (from 2013 to now) and somewhere in the ballpark of 2000 Hobbit (over the last two years) which adds up to probably about 1000 to 2000 per year over the last two years.
With those ballpark figures, Stern is likely in the 55 to 65% of the new pinball market range.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:No they don't.
Today's millenial is tomorrow's old white guy. Not too many people here had big collections of pinball machines in their 20s (except me of course).
A big question mark for millenials will be whether they have disposable income for things such as pinball. Right now that is doubtful.
Quoted from JY64:Given the size of the Stern factory I think if they put out only 10 games a day they would go under.Stern has put there number several times at 50 games a day thats 12,000 games a yr and with 12 games still being made believable
50 games a day is what they said they were capable of doing. The data does not back up them actually doing 50 a day for a full year.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:Stern doesn't release production numbers and neither does anybody else and there's no way of knowing if you can actually discern how many roll out of their factory with serial numbers.
That is not consistent with what JJP and some insiders that had worked at Stern have said about production numbers.
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