Quoted from gweempose:I don't think you will see pin prices start to significantly fall until the number of new people getting into the hobby begins to slow. It seems to me like the hobby is currently exploding like never before.
In regards to new people joining the hobby and prices on older/non-DMD games, I wonder if the modern additions to the hobby (pretty much using myself as an example) will be more married to DMD-only/more "modern" games than people that have been in the hobby for a while. I really don't see, at least around here, any non-DMD pins out on route, and of the places where the operators own their own machines, I think the only non-DMD table I've seen has been BoP (and I think it's fun, even though you can't see 3/4 of the table).
Any other exposure to pinball outside of this is tilted towards modern titles too, though it was good to see on the Williams collection deal for consoles a wide range of tables available. I would like to play a Whirlwind or a Taxi or even a Space Shuttle as a result (and who knows, maybe I did when I was a kid)...but I can't just go to a bar to play them. Obviously different in different locales. Also as other people have mentioned, pushing against this is the fact that a lot of people just don't want to pay more than a couple thousand, which may force them into older titles even if they're not familiar with them.