For those who can't afford it, get a better job. Lol
Ahhhhhhhhh, it's a one off run in very very limited numbers. The price was never going to be cheaper.
It's a luxury item with a crap Australian dollar, it had to be anything but cheap.
Pinball BNIB is never cheap. We all expect and understand brand new car prices go up year after year but when it happens to pinball everyone freaks out a little.
How did everyone think Stern was going to pay for its research and development costs on the SPIKE system, pay for its massive new factory and all the new top end office staff ? The prices had to go up.
It's just a shame our dollar is 75 cents USA and not the $1.15 it was.
If the dollar was excellent no one would be complaining.
What can you do. Pinball is now a Luxury item through and through.
as stated in the past just because stern develop a new controller system that is cheaper to make and cheaper to install etc doesn't mean the price should be hiked up. A smart business would plan ahead and recoup costs over a period of time, not slam their customers with all the extra costs due to development and new factory - slam the MMr contractors.
the fact that they are claiming it was a fake launch after almost everyone that made a comment on the pinside thread said they were out based on the price alone. I bet Stern are just getting greedy and trying to cash in on the boutique market but they are the holden / ford producer of pins with a base range, medium and HSV range. Boutique pinball is dearer because there unit costs are dearer as well as many other factors. Stern might of just seen the limits of the bubble plus Stern's marketing guy is a goose - no more launch videos and not launching product professionally and constant price hikes.
admittedly the dollar value does not help but this pin is $500 more in the US than the Wrestling and TWD pro pins ??? and it does not have ramps, dmd or playfield toys and is a one player only roll over em score reels??
that aside it is a sweet looking pin and look forward to videos.
