Quoted from mechslave:500 kits @ $2500 preorder.... you think WB could be finished and made? 1000 @ $2000?
There's a lot of room ($$$) there for dev costs, since you'd be finishing software and making a playfield kit. No cabinet, hardware, etc... just a kitable playfield with software.
Seems like it could be done, a lot easier to make than a full finished machine! Gene and Planetary? Pigs fly?
I know someone in the industry that looked into having this done. They told me $5000 would be a minimum for the drop in playfield and also side art so you could turn your RFM or SWE1 into a WB. It wasn't just the complexity of getting the parts made and the playfields assembled, it was more so who you had to deal with to get things done.