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KANEDA's LIVE SONIC REACTION
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KANEDA's LIVE SONIC REACTION
Highlights
- Pokémon (Premium/LE) machines have lost ~$4,000 in value in under 4 months, with roughly 20 units for sale and new ones unlikely to fetch $13,000
- Stern's recent releases (Pokemon, Transformers, Star Wars) are experiencing fastest depreciation in pinball history
- Jersey Jack's unlimited CE model for Sonic allows customers to try before buying, reducing FOMO unlike limited edition competitors
- Sonic features an upper playfield, loop-de-loop, magnetic accelerator, four flippers, and potentially a subway toy
- Jersey Jack's best game is Harry Potter, followed by Elton John
- Keith P. Johnson's code at Jersey Jack has been overly complex, making games less approachable than they should be
- Stern FOMO is dead due to oversaturation, customer burnout, and rapid value loss
- Sonic the Hedgehog reveal video was poorly executed: too fast and visually overwhelming for YouTube, would have been better as top-down static image or in-person show reveal
Notable quotes
“Stern FOMO is dead. It is over. And it's just they did it to themselves.”
“We don't get excited when the new Honda Civic comes out. We get excited when the next Ferrari, Lamborghini... That's the thing about Stern: they're the mainstream.”
“I'm not willing to wait two years for this game to get good. The price of this game is tanking in value.”
“Jersey Jack, what's up, brothers? We are on YouTube. We are on Facebook.”
“I think this is a prime example of a game that would have been better off revealed at a show where thousands of us were at.”
“All of it is marketing. These are all marketing decisions. A company that can manufacture... all the mistakes have been in the marketing department.”
“The code was way too complex. You don't want to be confused right away.”
“Sonic. It's a video game under glass. And there's a big gap between what people normally pay to enjoy Sonic and this $15,000 price tag.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Elton John· game
- Harry Potter· game
- Pokemon· game
- Sonic the Hedgehog· game
- Transformers· game
- Pinside· organization
- Abbas family· person
- Cale Hernandez· person
- David Van Es· person
- Kaneda· person
- Keith P. Johnson· person
- Ozzy· person
- Retro Ralph· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Vic· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
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Episode 1229: "Something We Can All Agree On"
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TL;DR
Kaneda condemns Stern's incomplete game launches and urges community to withhold support until quality improves.
Everyone wants the same thing, but we won't get there if we keep buying right away.
