Quoted from Deez:Hard to believe there are 10k machines sold per year. I wonder how that compares to the numbers at Williams in the 90's.
At the height of the pinball craze in 1992, WMS/BLY was running over 66000 games (not counting redemption and other games assigned a project number). Most of those units were sold directly to operations and distribution and put on the street. The break even was around 40000 units per year, so they were easily running at 50M+ in profits at the height of the era. Compare that to the downturn by early 1999 where pinball 2000 had the first profitable quarter at about $1M. Its quite a sight.
