Milwaukie, OR
When I buy pins locally to people I don't know I always ask if they are on pinside and maybe 5% of the time I get a yes. A lot of those people have 1-5 pins as well. There are pins sitting everywhere out there.
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Quoted from Rando:I am in my mid 40’s and have never to this day been over anyone else’s house that had a real pinball machine. I have been to one person’s house that had an arcade machine, and that was about 30 years ago.
If a new release of a machine is successful at somewhere between 5-10K units (or les for WOZ?), this is a tiny tiny hobby.
Well consider this (all estimates too lazy to get real numbers):
Addams: 20k+
High speed: 18K
STTNG: 10k
Too lazy to keep going, but those 3 right there just totaled almost 50k pins produced. We can't just get stuck on whats the latest pins being run. Not to mention that hundreds and even thousands of EM titles out there with who knows how many produced of each!
Quoted from TOK:I said it in another thread, but I think once 3 or 4 companies are making games again, the market will top out really fast. The home market is carrying the hobby and I just can't picture it supporting the release of five $5,500 to 7,000 games a year (figuring Stern for 2, JJ for 1, and boutique manufacturers like Jpop and Heighway and SkitB for one every couple years). It almost feels like Stern is trying to swamp the market before anyone else gets rolling.
Stern makes its 2-4 games a year.
JJP so far is on pace to make .3 games a year
All others are on pace to make .0 games a year. It's only there to theorize as it is still fairly uncertain if the other companies pins will be sweet in the end
Quoted from Astropin:But, as mentioned earlier, how many are left?
No one knows. There might might only be 10,000 TAF's left in existence (or less). We really have no way of knowing.
Not reallly my point. Point is i named 3 titles with over 50k total. There are a bajillion other titles. Id say over a million pins made. Seems reasonable
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