I look at it this way.....
you walk in into say a FORD/HOLDEN car dealership, the flagship is the larger Falcon/Commodore models, they look good, drive good, got all the stuff we have come to appreciate over many years of car owrnership etc, then all of a sudden they release a smaller car, the entry level model, being a Ford Fiesta or a Holden Barina etc......entry level cars for kids who are learning to drive, getting P plates etc....
.........Then, just up the road, a new car dealership opens, lets call it OPEL (german manufacturer who just hit Australia like say JJP to the market) and just imagine they are bringing out one model only, a fully loaded car like a Ford/Commodore and its a very large model, but its fully specked out with every toy , known to man...u cant then turn around n say Ford n Holden build quality is now gone to crap because they have introduced a small car entry level model for the first time car driver.....different cars or different pinballs are for different markets...just because Stern brings out a entry level Transformers model called the PIN, doesnt mean the larger models have suffered at all....no one goes to a car yard, drives the smallest n cheapest car on the lot, then ignores all the other models n just walks out never to buy a car ever again...why would someone do the same with pinballs, wouldnt they then say show me the fulkl range ..
.......and if someone walked into the persons house who has pinballs already, just like the person who owns a large sized Holden or Ford, it is doubtful that he/she would walk into that persons house n bag their new entry level car/or Transformers THE PIN model that someone just bought for the kids to learn on..I dont see the correllation here at all...if anything, they would say well done for getting into pinball and testing out the waters...
Someone said something about Sega versus Bally/Williams etc, thats a total myth...it always makes me laugh...I would take a Starship Trooopers, A Frankenstein and a Batman Forever over a snoozefest over rated cookie cutter any day of the week...3 great machines versus one only...if u had the room, its a no brainer to take the 3 machines.
Question - So if current pinball collectors n industry people think the new Stern idea is no good, whats the answer then to get new people into the industry whilst keeping the financial cost down ? Does anyone have any good/new ideas instead ?
