Just putting this out there:
The Mr. Pinball Price Guide has been published for 28 years, and it shows that IN AGGREGATE pinball prices have appreciated by about 3% every year during that time.
Yes, individual titles have fluctuated significantly. And titles less than 15 years old tend to depreciate until they hit 15. I'm taking these statements directly from the Guide.
Shouldn't this hard data over nearly 30 years put to rest the idea that a crash in the pinball market is "inevitable"? At most, we might see a crash in NIB pricing, or in the pricing for pins less than 15 years old. But that's different than the bottom falling out of the market.
I still think the outlook for pinball is pretty strong.