Quoted from bigdaddy07:That's what I have been thinking ever since I have been seeing the wave of drop outs over the past month. I predict there will be a strong surge of drop offs right when they announce the end of the cancellation dead line. I’m betting strong enough that it will backfill the remaining standards with LE orders. I think at 1k LEs the demand will be filled for new MMs at that price point. You have to consider the 4600 classic models already out there. I also predict they won’t sell too many standards at 8k. That's why there is a risk to not staying on for an LE and waiting for a standard, which may never come. The only wildcard there is if they drop the price of the standard to 7k or less, then the pipe of orders will fill back up but, the risk there is that if there isn’t enough premium features on the LEs over the standard, they will piss off LE buyers with the large price reduction. So I’m back to saying I have my doubts on the standard model.
Maybe. But if the standards don't sell don't expect a price drop. They'll just move to the next game title and charge 8k for an Le version. Or at least try to. I'm interested to know if Williams would need to sign off on each title. Economies of scale. If they can produce the cabinets and boards en mass and they don't need to get Williams to sign off on each title means they only need focus on the play fields with components and cabinet art. That would need a limited buy Inn order of about 1000. That would be no different than how play field runs and repro for plastics and parts are currently done. If each title is going to be a net new project with Williams approval means it's gonna be much longer between games and all games will be 7k+