I've never owned a NIB but I have played some right out of the box at a location near me. In my experience stern had a few games (TF/AV) that had some issues that made it feel cheapish to me. In general though the newer games I've played have felt fine. Part of it is likely that in this day and age any one who has an issue or needs to do adjustments will post it everywhere they can on the internet where as back in the 80s/90s ops fixed issues out of the box themselves and didn't have any where to post it.