Forum Overview :: Caltrops Pinball :: Re: Only 11,398 plays to break even. Plus power and tax.

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS)"]Stern Pinball mentions on their website about the offering of their latest pinball machine - a Marvel Comics-licensed game called <i>Avengers Pro</i> - sells for $5699. Presuming this is purchased for an arcade or commercial installation and not for a private buyer who just has the kind of money that they can afford to put a pinball machine in their home, which means if customers are paying 50c per game, that you need 11,398 plays on the machine to break even. [/quote] Yeah, but they are on location at bars, typically. If I buy a gin and tonic for $4.75 and it costs the bar a dollar for that drink and I only went to that bar because they had a pinball table, then the profit in the alcohol will start to cover the price of the pinball table. I suspect that bars get tables for a little bit less than what Stern places as the MSRP, but I'd be surprised if it were more than a couple hundred bucks off that figure. ICJ [/quote]