Wow, interesting to say the least, wonder what changes that will bring about in new machines?

I heard BBH has been delayed in favor of rerunning machines.  I hope this will be a good thing for Stern and bring about some necessary changes.

Private Equity Firms from my experience believe in only one thing: the bottom line!!  I would have been more excited to see someone that has a passion for pinball be the new investor, instead of a private equity firm. Hopefully this is good news.

Hopefully not more cost cutting measures.  Maybe bring back some of the talent that made the various A list Stern's.

Great news for pinball, no matter how you slice it!

Quoted from HP5P

Private Equity Firms from my experience believe in only one thing: the bottom line!!  I would have been more excited to see someone that has a passion for pinball be the new investor, instead of a private equity firm. Hopefully this is good news.

Generally I would hold the same concern but after having been to the factory and looking at the business I can't see much of a downside ....

Stern is in trouble and needs new ideas as well as capital there is no expensive new machinery for a raider to sell off and GS is still in charge of the company.

I'm not saying that this ensures Stern's existance in anyway but I don't think the path they were on was a good one so hopefully this gives the company a much better chance to survive

This is fantabulous!

People don't usually invest in order to lose money. Considering that in 2009 over 100 American banks went bankrupt, banks and investment firms have become extremely conservative. Given that, this company obviously believes that there is money to be made and the resurgence is on its' way. I see this as good news.

Now Stern should take on the philosophy that many companies have for their products such as offer a premium product - say LOTR for $5-6K and then make a slightly more down to earth pin for $3k., more of an entry level pin to get people interested. Even BMW has range in products from $30k - >$140K. This can only attract a larger market.

Quoted from Ricker

Now Stern should take on the philosophy that many companies have for their products such as offer a premium product - say LOTR for $5-6K and then make a slightly more down to earth pin for $3k., more of an entry level pin to get people interested. Even BMW has range in products from $30k - >$140K. This can only attract a larger market.

Didn't Bally try this ages ago with "home" versions of the coin-op stuff?  (and to my knowledge the "home" versions were crap)  Stick to making the games the way they are, that way they don't have to worry about managing 2 types of systems.

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MAybe it will be like when Gottlieb became a division of Columbia. (some of the shittiest SS's of all time)

Hope not!

I saw the stern videos the other day, and today i check my email, and "SternPinballInc" sent me a friend invite, weird, must have seen my game videos, or something like that

hopefully this is all good news and more pinballs will keep being produced

Eric

I'm hoping they come up with a platform that would make swapping games cheaper and easier. Something like pin2k. Both ops and home users would appreciate it.

Quoted from jonny_eh

I'm hoping they come up with a platform that would make swapping games cheaper and easier. Something like pin2k. Both ops and home users would appreciate it.

Maybe as a long term project but I can't see that kind of inovation coming any time soon from Stern ... but way off in the future it would be a good thing to see.