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Quoted from cooked71:So Stern have no intention of making Godzilla and acquired the license just to impede Spooky?
No one has shown any evidence of this. It's a claim put forth by several posters.
As far as the Stern rep walking in on the meeting- everyone was at a licensing convention. Not clear from Spooky's podcast how big the convention was. It may have been an unlikely coincidence. No one really knows but Stern.
Quoted from guymontag451:...every machine not sold by another company is a big win. Literally millions of dollars.
They'll likely sell another machine with a different title. The result will probably be zero dollars difference.
Quoted from guymontag451:Clearly the Stern people knew that this game might've been Spooky's best, given how much they covet it. They would have put everything they had into, maybe it would have been an instant classic pin.
Maybe Spooky would have spent too much on development and made a dud. Stern has no way of knowing that and basing a business decision on that line of thinking would be silly (but possible).
Quoted from guymontag451:Stern would lose not only the revenue that Spooky sold on those games, but also on their current games on the production line.
Stern isn't losing additional revenue unless a competitor would have sold MORE of the title the competitor didn't make than the title the competitor makes in its place. Stern has no way of knowing this.
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