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The Pinball Show Ep 167: The Best & Worst Of 2024 Pinball, A Year In Review
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The Pinball Show Episode 167: The Best & Worst Of 2024 Pinball, A Year In Review Hosts: Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny - Ringing In The New Year - 2024: A Year In Review - The Pinball Show Awards:...
Highlights
- Stern is entering a vault program retiring Deadpool, Iron Maiden, Star Wars, Star Wars Comic Art, Avengers Infinity Quest, Elvira's House of Horrors, and Foo Fighters for a minimum of two years
- The next Stern Pinball cornerstone game (expected January 2025) is rumored to be Dungeons & Dragons based on designer feedback
- Stern invited dealers to factory/Vegas on January 7th morning to play the next cornerstone game before media in afternoon
- Foo Fighters sold extremely well initially (saturated within six months) due to low expectations and fresh theme, but subsequent runs had weak dealer orders
- Seth Davis stated Stern makes two-year advance bets on theme licensing to predict what will be popular
- Seth Davis worked on projects mixing physical and digital products at Disney, including AR lightsabers and Disney Infinity
- Metallica Remaster Premiums are in short supply with dealers having back orders
- The vault program is designed to preserve resale value and encourage sales of sitting inventory rather than clearance pricing
Notable quotes
“Data without purpose is meaningless... Numbers don't lie. They don't, but if you don't know how to or can't do anything about them, were the numbers really there in the first place?”
“The rumors are telling my tummy that it's Dungeons & Dragons... I still don't know it to be a fact yet, as of this recording.”
“What happened with Foo Fighters? I could be wrong, I'm usually not... everybody knew it was going to be Foo Fighters, thus expectations were very low... The game did sell very, very well, but that was based on the low expectation ratio.”
“They're making a bet... the bets are all safe. All right, it's easier to stick with nostalgia. Don't try to do the John Wick.”
“The people who went to the arcades now have the money and they're at home more than they are at these locations and arcades... bringing the arcade to their home.”
“I think this is a very good move by Stern Pinball because it upholds the value somewhat on some of your products... once they're out, they're out... pushes them a little bit more.”
“The problem is is that arcades, while they still exist broadly, don't use pinball anymore... So it doesn't have the marketing that it did in the 70s.”
“When you ask random people on the street what pinball is, they think of the equivalent of what Pong is to video games now... they think of old 1970, and video games has surpassed that archival, conceptual kind of thing, where pinball is not.”
Entities
- Stern Pinball· company
- CES· event
- Avengers Infinity Quest· game
- Beatles Gold· game
- Black Knight Pro· game
- Deadpool· game
- Dune Prophecy· game
- Dungeons & Dragons· game
- Elvira's House of Horrors· game
- Foo Fighters· game
- Godzilla· game
- Iron Maiden· game
- John Wick· game
- King Kong· game
- Metallica Remaster Premium· game
- Star Wars· game
- Brian Eddy· person
- Dennis Creasel· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- George Gomez· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Seth Davis· person
- Zach Minney· person
- Loser Kid Pinball Podcast· podcast
- The Pinball Show· podcast
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