Uhhhh.....please list the citation of those numbers.

- is simply mammoth projection on your part. Totally cool if you don't like Stern or Batman'66 - but wild hyperbole pretending to be fact is where I have to call people out. Sorry.

There is certainly no 'subject to change' anywhere on the current Stern product page.

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well, this is the sales sheet for their pinball they are currently selling and shipping to consumers and businesses and if the art is incorrect, they are going to have to answer for it. This isn't six months out from shipping. Not mad, but Stern has set themselves up for more customer service smoothing out.....saying "these things always change" isn't going to be a well received answer.

EDIT: I also want to add - this isn't some trade show sales sheet from the 90s....where they sold a Dirty Harry pin to operators and no one gave a shit about side art one way or the other. This pinball was taylored specifically to the collectors market with pricey tiers broken down exclusively by the different art packages. Yea, it's going to matter.

If you bought your Batman '66 based on the art package, then yes, it is. They all play the same and they are being sold on packages based solely on art. While its not melt down, table flipping outrage, its certainly something Stern will have to address.

Video is nothing more that a series of frames playing back - Its all 'animated' - the thing you seem to be proposing is less frames playing back per second, which would simply result in a jerky effect. All digital video is 'compressed' (IE nothing you ever watch is truly uncompressed) to some degree and its all a cost/benefit analysis of performance vs quality. Batman '66 is not just running video clips, they are running video clips that are being served up randomly accessed and with images composited over them on the fly. This all takes horsepower and its a process that will probably be improved over time - if not on this pin, then over the life of this system.

EDIT: In re-reading your post, you seem to actually be addressing the graphic overlays - there is no separating those, they have to be composited onto the video for final output. Thats just how things work - you end up with one final video image/stream thats piped onto the display and its all a part of the same level of compression.