Quoted from curban:Don’t fool yourselves and underestimate China. If they find the pinball market worthwhile, they could dominate in no time.
There’s far too many $’s in the design and BOM that China could reduce >50%.
Yes, they can build good quality when they want. Yes, they’re know as ‘great copiers’, but they also have millions of good engineers and designers. Don’t ever think “they can’t”.
I suspect they have little interest as there’s probably no market for pinball ownership in China. Most of the rising class that could afford pinball live in major cities where square footage comes at very high $’s. No 2000 sq ft basements.
China makes video games and movies, but they're rarely popular in the United States. I'm not counting martial arts films, it is my understanding that those were mostly Hong Kong. Tencent publishes games that are mega-popular in the United States, but I think those games are mostly made by US developers. Pokemon: Unite being a recent exception.
