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Spooky TNA remake announced - you in or out?

By Vino

1 year ago


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“TNA remake - are you in or out?”

  • Finally! I’m in! 73 votes
    12%
  • I’m out - no thanks 517 votes
    83%
  • Mayyybe - give reason 33 votes
    5%

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#766 1 year ago

Didn't spend time reading the entire 16 pages. I think the one thing that people on both sides of the money argument have missed: Stern pricing has a middle-man (a distributor) that has to take a cut. Godzilla @ Pinball Dudes is 7,999. That means they are selling it to them probably 5-6k. If they are selling for 5k-6k, they are manufacturing it for 3k or less. So if you cut the middleman, the real cost of that game for Stern to make money is the 5K they sell it for.

At the volume Spooky runs, I'd bet they get identical volume pricing, so I don't think their parts cost more at this point. That game can't be that costly to make. What Spooky makes after taxes, paying any owners, etc, and deciding what they want to pocket per game is what they want. If you actually wanted a TNA AND you are mad at the price, then for sure I'd be mad. If you are just mad that a pinball game is expensive.... pinball has always been expensive and everyone seems to be paying a steep price to hit a steel ball.

Some people pay $100k for a painting that takes someone a month of labor and $10 in paint, so cost of goods sometimes has no play on the final value. What we really need is China to start making knock-off TNA games just like Rolex and everything else

#774 1 year ago
Quoted from koji:

Stern distributors make very little margin. I'm not a distributor, but I have heard that it is very little.. much less than 1k.

Seems low, but interesting info. Would really love to know the distributor cut. I follow Kiesel guitars and their owner says repeatedly he will never be in Guitar Center because it would raise the prices on his guitars from 3k to 5k.

Quoted from turbo2nr:

Distributors buy pins for approx 15% less than they sell (or less than that!). You are way off bro.
So a game that has an MSRP of $7999 probably cost a Distributor around $6800 or more. NOT $5000.
Stern probably makes 15%-20% max on a game. So take that 6800 and subtract about 15% to see what it cost Stern to make it. Which would be around $5780. NOT $3000. You are mental

Ah ok, thats good to know. That doesn't necessarily make me mental that I thought distributors might make more money......

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