The Pinball Show Ep 187: 2025 Game Sales Data & Industry Pattern Analysis
The Pinball Show Episode 187: 2025 Game Sales Data & Industry Pattern Analysis Hosts: Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny - Season's Shillings Holiday Giveaway Winners - The Best Pinball Of 2025: The...
Highlights
- Metallica Remastered Premium returning to production line in January 2026
- Star Wars Fall of the Empire Pro and Premium will be on the line in January 2026
- New Stern Q1 cornerstone game will debut 'sometime this month' (January), likely Pokemon
- No future plans to build Uncanny X-Men Pro/Premium or James Bond Premiums after April 2026
- Dune from Barrels of Fun has been 'killing' in Q4 2025 sales
- Barrels of Fun limiting Dune production to approximately 1,000 units total
- Spooky Beetlejuice production has begun; no units shipped yet
- Video game titles may dominate 2026 releases: Pokemon, Fallout, Sonic, Halo rumored
- Jack Danger is developing a Tank Girl pinball game concept
- Star Wars Fall of the Empire C-3PO topper is selling 'like bonkers'
Notable quotes
“I just don't make goals that I don't achieve so it's just a waste of time if I'm creating goals that I know I'm not going to achieve”
“We are single-handedly on the Pinball Show giving more than all of them, giving back to some of these viewers and listeners”
“I still lean to Pokemon. Why do you think? Because... I was thinking about this week how... we're almost mid-January now and... we normally know by now”
“Dune's freaking killing. We're selling multiples of them every week. People knowing they're going to have to wait until March.”
“That might be the big hit of 2026... But granted, no one had theirs yet, so that might explain part of it”
“I think it is. Maybe I'm wrong... If they're going to do all of this work, they're going to sell a product. I have a hard time believing they won't”
“This could be, quite frankly, could be the year of the video game titles. And I think welcomed by a lot of people”
“They've made a huge push... someone had asked about Dune versus Harry Potter. The comments were overwhelmingly Dune”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Beetlejuice· game
- Dune· game
- Fallout· game
- Halo· game
- James Bond· game
- Jaws 50th Anniversary· game
- Metallica Remastered· game
- Pokemon· game
- Sonic the Hedgehog· game
- Star Wars Fall of the Empire· game
- Tank Girl· game
- Transformers· game
- Uncanny X-Men· game
- Walking Dead Remastered· game
- Winchester Mystery House· game
- Dennis· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Joel· person
- Zach· person
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