Quoted from Circus_Animal:When will the Stern bubble burst? Hopefully about 0.36 of a second after Pat Lawlor's new game is unveiled. I'm really hoping Heighway can take a substantial chunk out of Stern's market share as well, they seem to be committed to real innovation and keeping prices low.
It amazes me that some people think WOF was a one-off, never to be repeated. That fiasco is always dismissed by Stern's fans as justified 'because they were in financial trouble'. Yet here Stern are a decade later, with the market showing all the signs of a bubble, competition on the horizon for the first time in years, precious few innovations to show for their years of dominance, and STILL releasing games faster than they can code them- all the while experimenting with jacking up prices just to see if customers will pay them. It's a recipe for disaster and soon their profits are going to take a big hit. When they do, what budget items are going to be cut? It won't be physical production or marketing- they bring in money. It will be coding, from here to eternity, and it will make WOF look like a picnic. I wouldn't touch a new Stern with a ten foot pole.
So you want stern to crash to earth within a minute of jjp3 gets unveiled and that visual will make them crumble to their knees? Who knows how long it will take Jjp to bring that to market.
The garbage people post on here shouldn't astound me anymore but it does. Just go play some pinball and have fun, the bitchfest was off the charts today! Congrats to all.
