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Quoted from Texasff78:I've reached out to Stern by email but have not heard back yet.
Ring them. They are pretty slow when it comes to email but once you have them on the phone I have found them to be very helpful.
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Batman 66 (LE)
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Quoted from DaveH:This is nothing like Atari. Sure, both companies make something. However Stern doesn't buy things like older companies did. In your Atari ET example, they made 4 million cartridges of crap. That was a really big investment. But Stern doesn't overstock like older companies, they almost do a build on demand system. Inventory on hand is only what is needed to meet that demand. Their biggest cost is assembly. So an extra 1000 flipper bases will just get used up on a different game. They won't ever have to do "closeout" sales like they did back with Ripley's, because they just won't build them now.
And here is the MASSIVE difference... Stern can fix it really quickly. If they actually started to get close to going over the cliff, all they would have to do is turn out 500 copies of LOTR using the same manufacturers for parts that they used when the game first came out. The one company that could do that is Stern. They would sell like hotcakes, and instantly cure any ills. They probably have 5 games they could do that with and get themselves right back in the game.
Oh, and on topic, I finally played a Batman 66 SLE (yup, the Super). And I enjoyed it.
There is an even easier fix than re-hashing old games. Stop selling shite. Don't cheap out on critical areas of the game and people will happily buy NIB. Stern has made and continues to make great games. It would be mental for them put their future in danger for the sake of saving a few dollars per game.
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