As revealed in the Pinball Magazine Newsletter:
While there hasn't been much news to report on Homepin since they moved to Taiwan almost one year ago, Mike and his team basically had to start up all over again. While doing that, Porsche, who is very big in China, ordered four of these pinball games that will be taken to various car shows in China to promote the new Porsche Taycan model. The games basically function as a marketing tool to harvest email addresses via a WeChat logon. There are no plans for a commercial production of the game.
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As the above (intentionally obscured) picture shows, the layout of the game is very simple compared to modern games and reminds quite a bit of the layout of Firepower. The playfield features two droptarget banks that spell TAY and CAN, three standup targets on the right that represent Solar Power, Hydro Power and Wind Power, three kickout holes that can lock balls for multiball, three popbumpers, two flippers and a spinner.
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The playfield has no rollover micro switches, but uses optical switches instead, as can be seen in the above close-up of the left out- and inlane. These opto switches use a special circuitry to prevent them from responding to other light sources, such as daylight.
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The backbox, not shown, contains a blue dotmatrix display as well as a 27-inch LCD. The DMD is mainly used for scores, names and simple animations, while the LCD is used to display commercials/advertising.

Apparently, the layout plays very fast.
Pinball is practically unknown in China. People have no idea what it is and what's fun about it. I think, the best way to get them introduced to pinball is by starting of with simple layouts and rules, and build from there. Basically start with games with a simple objective that is fun to shoot but difficult to master. Forget about wizard modes and all that. Keep it simple. Several EM game layouts come to mind that could do great as solid-state games, with a great soundtrack and voice calls, especially when themed for the Asian market.

Not defending or attacking anyone, but the pinball industry used to have a tendency of not caring, or getting upset, with layouts being 'borrowed' by companies in territories they didn't sell themselves. E.g.: all the Brazilian pinball games that heavily leaned on Williams, Bally and even some European designs. At some point, Bally even copied a Gottlieb playfield layout almost 1 : 1. Nobody complained about that back in the day and the Brazilian knock-off games are even rather collectible for pinball enthusiasts these days.

I think, the best chance any startup pinball company in China has is looking at what worked in pinball in the past and try to adept that to the Asian market. If that results in a new market and more pinball in general, I don't see the problem. With a bit of luck existing pinball companies may benefit from the Asian market (finally) opening up (which still remains to be seen).

If pinball ever gets some traction in Asia, I suppose it will be in arcades, and other places where people play coin-op machines, not so much by people buying a game for their home. Pinball might actually be a great escape from people's phones. Or they may come up with cool ways to integrate phones and pinball that we haven't thought of yet.