Can you buy a brand new pinball machine for less than $1000?

“I strongly doubt as someone who's quite familiar with manufacturing pinball machines that this is really going to be profitable for this company at $1,000.”

“Can you sell a sub $1,000 pinball machine? Sure, you can sell whatever you want at whatever price you want if you're willing to take a loss on it.”

“There's just so much space between the $4,500, $5,000 price point and the $800 price point that it just does not seem realistic to me to deliver a pinball like physical gameplay experience even at 80% size at that $800 price point.”

“Yes, the code is real. Here's an influencer video.”

“All those things you add up just like the little bits of time, labor, cost, and all those parts. it very very quickly starts to add up because you don't have the advantage of scale necessarily when you're doing things assembly like this on like a small run of 600 games.”

“If you're going to make everything smaller. Also, if you're really attempting to get the cost down, you would need to redesign everything.”

“The implication in that promise there is that either the existing pinball companies are ripping you off in some way or they're just stupid and unable to get their cost down low enough.”

“A pinball machine costs $7,000, $8,000, $10,000 because it costs $7,000 8,000 $10,000.”

“So far you've bought a Kickstarter pledge for a potential pinball machine that should be delivered in 12 months.”

“200 backer spots filled, 200k raised is honestly not a lot of money. How many salaries could you pay for a year on 200k? Not too many.”