The home collector market has outperformed commercial sales on pins for several years now.

Click on any modern machines info and count the number of machine on location VS number machines in private collections. There may be some cases where a specific model (like pro) sold more for commercial use, but if you add up LE, Pro, Premius and lump the numbers all into one it’s the collector market that’s bought the most machines in recent years. Not to mention percentage wise most locations are listed, as pinsiders have a tendency to keep location Pinball up to date on the pinmap. On the other hand many collectors have their collection listed as private and the number in private collections is deflated.

I.E. home sales have outperformed location sales for years now (for every company).