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Quoted from Allibaster:It's going to be announced around Valentine's day.
Perfect time to announce it. It will end up cutting Hobbit sales off at the knees just as they start rolling out of the factory.
Jack, if you read this, people always want "the next one"... give your games some time to breath!! Let Hobbit have its sales window.
How could it NOT hurt Hobbit sales? People have limited cash and space. The amount of people than can absorb multiple $8000 games in a single year is very small.
I know WE would love to know what JJP3 will be, but as a business it would not be smart of them to release that too soon. Unless they are looking for pre-order money once again, but then that means Hobbit is not selling enough to generate the cash they need either.
Quoted from Cheeks:That's my point, but JJP is not the only vendor. If they felt that both Hobbit and JJP3 were better than Alien and TWD, it might get people to save their money for JJP games vs spending the money elsewhere. When Stern was the only game in town, you could look at things in a serial fashion. Now, there are parallel game releases going on and I think a more holistic view could be beneficial. I'm not saying I'm right, I'm just saying with all the purchasing options now, the answer isn't as simple.
Ok, I agree, but this also speaks to a bigger point, about how many $8000+ games the pinball market can take in. It seems all the new companies are battling for the same small sliver.
Stern at least has a Pro model which seems to outsell everything else by a large margin.
Heighway may have something with his swappable system, so I'd give him better odds than most.
The rest? Fighting over that small slice. It will be a blood bath.
Quoted from RobT:How many people who are likely to buy a $9k pinball machine don't know who Pat Lawlor is?
If JJP wants to make a real go of things, then that have to sell beyond us. That means location pins. How far does an unlicensed theme go in the real world? These days, people are so used to licensed everything, unlicensed stuff can appear "cheap".
Dunno, just don't know about the business logic of this.
Quoted from LTG:Curious. What makes an arcade "real" ?
Thank you.
LTG : )™
SS Billiards is a real arcade 
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Quoted from Rarehero:A pinball company should never worry that one game is cannibalizing the other.
It depends on how big "the pie" is. If the pie is finite, then the slices do take away from each other.
The "pie" for $8500+ pinballs is not too big, a lot smaller than Pro pricing. I would suspect timing of releases to maximize sales of each would be important.
And definitely you would want to be selling the game you have for sale TODAY, and not be announcing the next title and have people sit on their money waiting for it and skipping on today's game. That is the risk.
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