Quoted from Eric_S:CrazyLevi - Uh oh, looks like you're up for a response to a pinball market crash thread!
My guess is that most collectors will hunker down and hold on to the machines they already have. If you can afford a bunch of pinball machines, you can probably afford to weather this economic storm. I do think NIB game sales will probably slow down and high end machine pricing ($5K+) may come down a bit as well, but I don't see a collapse in the pinball market overall. I'd be more concerned with some of the barcades and impacted business due to social distancing and quarantine.
This assumes that people buying games actually have emergency savings and such.
I would be willing to bet that most don’t.
Pinball machines are toys. They will be one of the first things to go when people need cash after the first few missing paychecks or medical bills come rolling in.