Episode 117 - PS5 Wheels
Pinball: Tony and Dennis discuss the JJP podcast interview with Brett Abess and the latest from American Pinball on promoting Hot Wheels. They also play Build a Bank! Video Games: The main focus is...
Highlights
- Jersey Jack Pinball has been breaking even for well over a year (since approximately Wonka's release)
- JJP moved manufacturing from New Jersey to Chicago area to consolidate with design teams
- JJP reduced standard edition pricing by $1,000 with Wonka by removing the Wonkavator mech to penetrate operator market
- American Pinball's Hot Wheels is positioned specifically for location play, unlike their other games
- Steve Epstein, founder and former president of PAPA, passed away recently
- American Pinball failed to adequately promote Straight Down the Middle's Hot Wheels promotional videos despite coordinating their creation
Notable quotes
“Well over a year at this point, they're breaking even. And they see the path to profitability.”
“The rarest model on many of their games, I think all of their games where there was a standard, was the standard. And it was because it was really expensive.”
“Why are they not promoting the promotional video? I get that it's great that Straight Down the Middle has promoted their own videos, but why hasn't American Pinball shared them?”
“This does not look like how you promote a pinball machine... they have all this content that they seem to have arranged... Why are they not pushing on all fronts?”
“They had a four-prong attack on all on the same day, shoving all this content out for people to consume. I thought... that was a really, I thought it was an excellent idea.”
“It's like they're doing a half-hearted effort. It's just weird to me.”
“I don't think they have a strategy... Either they changed their plan and it didn't get completely moved everywhere, or somebody in the chain decided they wanted to do things differently.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Buffalo Pinball· organization
- Deadflip· organization
- PAPA· organization
- Straight Down the Middle· organization
- This Week in Pinball· organization
- Brett Abbas· person
- Dennis· person
- Gary Stern· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jack Guarneri· person
- Joe Schober· person
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Michael Grant· person
- Steve Epstein· person
- Tony· person
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