Just curious, I keep seeing posts that Stern has ended AC/DC VE. Does anyone out there know if this is true? If so, that was a very quick run... glad I got mine when I could!!
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http://www.sternpinball.com/games shows they are still in production. Any distributor should be able to tell you for how long. I recall SMVE has been in production for a year already.
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Quoted from teekee:or not...
When it falls off the current gamea in production page I linked above, then I will believe that.
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My theory: this was a way for Stern to quickly sell the last of it’s SAM systems- if they run AC/DC again, it will be Spike. Word was they only made about 300 of each (pro and premium) and that was it....
Quoted from sleepygtr:My theory: this was a way for Stern to quickly sell the last of it’s SAM systems- if they run AC/DC again, it will be Spike. Word was they only made about 300 of each (pro and premium) and that was it....
That would be a shame if they did it on the spike platform. I recently bought a VE and if it were spike, I would not have. I doubt they would remake it on spike. Recall that boards are not interchangeable across games so it would require significant redesign. Basically, anyone who wants an acdc at this point has it or has the ability to get one.
Why would they ever convert it to spike?
Vaults are all about wringing the last dollars out of a machine. To convert to spike takes engineering and testing money. SAM is free.
Video integration would take more money and additional licensing if done right.
There just isn’t enough demand for this machine anymore to invest in it like that.
Quoted from Black_Knight:Why would they ever convert it to spike?
Vaults are all about wringing the last dollars out of a machine. To convert to spike takes engineering and testing money. SAM is free.
Video integration would take more money and additional licensing if done right.
There just isn’t enough demand for this machine anymore to invest in it like that.
So they could resdesign the art and go LCD and make all the current ACDC’s look like crap.
Quoted from thedarkknight77:So they could resdesign the art and go LCD and make all the current ACDC’s look like crap.
It would make more sense to take a current SPIKE game like GOT and give it an LCD and improved art package than going back to the ACDC trough.
Quoted from thedarkknight77:So they could resdesign the art and go LCD and make all the current ACDC’s look like crap.
They could improve on a lot of machines thay have made. But they aren’t going to do it to lose money.
There just isn’t enough market for the investment needed for those changes. If there was they wouldn’t have watered it down with the vault run they just did.
They didn’t even (significantly) redesign the art for this run.
My point was only that they are done with SAM and these last AC/DC vaults were the last ones we will see.... ever
Quoted from sleepygtr:My point was only that they are done with SAM and these last AC/DC vaults were the last ones we will see.... ever
until Tron VE
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