Quoted from drfrightner:

Let me chime in because I’m a HUGE JJP fan. So I will agree but disagree. Depending on how you measure success no pinball company is better than Stern. Stern manufactures their games faster, they release more titles, and at the end of the day no one can make more pinballs in a day than Stern. Oh and not to mention no one makes more money. Stern is the king and probably will be for some time to come.
Now on the other hand if you want to say who makes the best overall games, well its JJP by 100 miles. It’s not even fair to compare a Stern LE vs JJP LE much less a JJP CE. When even the biggest Stern fan says something like ‘yeah well I wish JJP would have done Star Wars’ you know they know. Everyone wants their DREAM THEME done by JJP and I mean everyone. Why? Because they want their dream theme to have a themed world under glass to go with an amazing pinball design.
Here is where it gets interesting and why Stern should start to put more effort into their games. No pinball company has pushed Stern to move the needle NOT JJP not anyone because Stern releases more games in a calendar year than all other suppliers combined. NO other pinball company has the network of distributors like Stern. Lastly most suppliers have shown no ability to compete with Stern on volume of games.
But hold the phone because it appears at least me that JJP is way past the teething phase and seems to moving into a new direction. JJP has entered the music pin business, JJP is poised to release a second game within a twelve month period. JJP has moved into a bigger facility and to Chicago where there is more pinball talent than New Jersey.
Last but not least JJP has the hottest designer in pinball... Eric has shown both the he ability to do layouts and theming something many Stern designers struggle with. JJP also has maybe the best overall pinball designer in history MR Adams Family/Twilight Zone himself Pat Lawlor. JJP is on the move that’s for sure but Stern will continue to be the leader in sales but who knows JJP might just catch them.
One more note if American Pinball to Pinball Brothers and all these other companies start making more games people want to buy, that combined with JJP skyrocketing that could pinch Stern by giving buyers more options more often.
Stern should get really serious about upping the game. So as of today I agree but don’t agree. But to your point yes JJP games seem to hold their value better than Stern and or raise in value by a lot more than a stern.