anyways im not sure if playstation and xbox really harm these things like pinball, remember Nintendo and sega and playstation were all around in every single house in the low to mid nineties and we were all playing them to death back then. its not that difference.
i have an xbox360 iphone pc's and all the simular crap that i had in the 90's when  arcades were popular in the 90's and still play pinball.

The threat to pinball in the 1980s (as an example) was not poor marketing but the onslaught of Space Invaders and video arcade games.
Williams Black Knight was a critical pin in 1980. Read the last quote from Steve Ritchie in the following thread:
http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?topic=9380.msg121527#msg121527