James Bond
game"That is the single biggest loss of any Stern in the history of Stern machines"
James Bond 60th anniversary had the biggest loss in Stern history
"The only suckers are the people that bought the James Bond 60th anniversary edition. I still will think if you bought that game at $20,000, I don't know how you look at yourself in the mirror. I really don't"
James Bond buyers of 60th anniversary edition at $20,000 were suckers
"A game that is a single level game with no real mechs in it, terrible artwork, a ridiculous scoring reel that makes no sense. And they made 500 of them and they priced them at $19,999... It was one of the most underwhelming pinball machines ever."
James Bond 60th Anniversary was overpriced and underwhelming
"I still think James Bond is a little bit of a clunk fest. I think the left side of that game is really uninspired... it just has stuff in it that just feels like half thought out."
James Bond pinball is a clunky, uninspired miss with half-thought-out mechanisms
"It's a barren game. It looks cheap. It looks bad. And Stern goes and charges you the most amount of money ever"
Stern's James Bond 60th Anniversary was overpriced and bare - terrible example of premium pinball
"James Bond, Keith Elwin, all the James Bond IP into that game. You know, I think the reason James Bond 60th just didn't work is there's no denying the fact that when you stand over the game, it just feels cheap. Like there's nothing about it that feels like it's worth 20,000 or $15,000."
James Bond 60th Anniversary feels cheap and overpriced
"I thought that game was the biggest ripoff in the history of pinball."
James Bond 60th is the biggest ripoff in pinball history
"That game is the single biggest loser financially in the history of pinball. There has never been a single pinball machine that has lost $9,000 in value over its MSRP price"
James Bond 60th is the biggest financial loser in pinball history
"Stern and pinball absolutely lands with the ultimate FU to the entire pinball community. And they bring out James Bond's 60th anniversary."
James Bond 60th Anniversary was ultimate insult to pinball community
"James Bond 60th has taken the biggest hit ever in a single pinball machine's relaunch ever... Stern priced this game at $20,000. Every single one of them for sale now is right around $15,000. It's never going to go back up in price. It failed horribly."
James Bond 60th Anniversary failed horribly as a marketing decision
"This is the biggest lead balloon release in the history of pinball... So if you bought it on day one from Stern, are you sitting down? Stern with tax was $22,000. So you just lost $9,000 on a game in less than a year"
James Bond 60th is the biggest lead balloon release in pinball history, losing $9,000 in value
"people will still be offering like $14,000, $12,000 for the most overpriced pinball machine of all time. James Bond 60th."
James Bond 60th Anniversary is the most overpriced pinball machine of all time
"when you hit the start button this game still doesn't really have a narrator that pulls you through any sort of storyline, the game doesn't really communicate to you on any level like hey you're James Bond... I don't find the layout to be that satisfying, I still feel like all of the shots up the middle and to the upper left are just unsatisfying"
James Bond pinball lacks narrative cohesion and has an unsatisfying layout compared to other Stern games
"Have you seen this new James Bond code? I mean, there is a lot in this .92 code dump. And this game is finally starting to really come alive. The owners are celebrating this code in the streets."
James Bond code is finally making the game come alive
"This game will be selling open next year for $12,000. Mark my words. You will see them being sold for $12,000. There are still so many distributors sitting on this game."
Prediction: The game will be selling for $12,000 next year, and will continue to decline in value when Keith Elwin's Jaws comes out.
"This game will always have a negative stigma because of how Stern launched it. I would stay far away from this game at 18,000. You're going to be able to get one mint condition $12,000 within a year. Mark my words."
Prediction: You'll be able to get one mint condition for $12,000 within a year.
"this game is plummeting in value. Everybody remember that Stern priced this game at $19,995. Flipping out pinball will sell you one for $15,799."
James Bond 60th is massively overpriced and losing value rapidly
"I think a game should be amazing on the day they take your money. I think a game should be amazing on the day they sell it to you. And if more of these early adopters would stop buying everything before the game is complete, guess what Stern Pinball would have to do? They would have to release the game when it is complete."
Games should be complete on release day, not fixed later with updates
"you gotta hit the rocket, get ready for it 18 times, 18 times to start something like that's way too many times"
James Bond code updates are making the game too difficult
"You know, it's a great shooter. It's pretty damn ugly and it's way overpriced."
James Bond 60th is overpriced and ugly but plays well
"If you bought one, you have a lot of money. If you bought one, you're a very wealthy man... I also do think there are some James Bond 60th owners that are behaving like prima donnas and complaining when people complain about their game"
James Bond 60th edition buyers are wealthy prima donnas who complain about criticism
"Here's my prediction. I think Pulp Fiction LEs are gonna end up trading around $13,000 to $15,000 when they finally get made. And I think that's the same price that James Bond's 60th will end up becoming worth"
Prediction: James Bond 60th will end up becoming worth the same price as Pulp Fiction LEs ($13,000 to $15,000).
"I think you're going to see James Bond pins selling at bargain basement prices by the end of the year. That's Stern's fault. This game never should have came out."
James Bond pinball will fail commercially
"how stupid does James Bond 60th look now for $20,000"
James Bond 60th looks stupid for $20K compared to Pulp Fiction at $9.5K
"60 seconds of silence for all the fools that bought James Bond 60th... The game's a joke for $20,000 is the biggest joke in pinball history."
James Bond 60th Anniversary is the biggest joke and cash grab in pinball history
"And I think for everyone who bought this $20,000 game, I am laughing at you from New York City. Trust me, I am laughing at you. You never should have bought this game for this much money."
Mocking James Bond 60th Anniversary buyers after missing shaker motor scandal
"I think this game does absolutely embarrass that joke of a game known as James Bond 60th. And I think everyone who ordered a James Bond 60th right now is looking down at this game and I know you've got more money than all of us, you people who ordered that game. But what a joke of a cash grab that game was when you look at this game."
James Bond 60th is a terrible cash grab that embarrasses Stern
"And I'm happy to report that nobody really cares about James Bond anymore. The hype for James Bond is gone. It's been a four to five month debacle launching James Bond."
James Bond 60th launch was a disaster - hype is completely gone
"I think everybody who bought a James Bond 60th, when you see this game from Jack Danger, you're going to realize that you also got sucker punched because only suckers would drop 20,000 on that game"
James Bond 60th buyers got sucker punched - only suckers would pay $20,000 for it
"This is the most expensive pinball machine that has ever been released by a manufacturer. $1995, and Stern Pinball is ashamed of that price because they removed it from their website, they don't even want to stand behind it."
James Bond 60th is the most expensive pinball machine ever at $19,995 with minimal value
"I'm sorry everybody, but I think you're all a bunch of apologists."
James Bond fanboys are apologists for poor engineering
"Here's my prediction. This game is going to be fine. It is going to be an okay shooter. It is not going to be anything special."
James Bond 60th will be fine but not special
"I think James Bond has been one of the worst launches in the history of stern pinball"
James Bond will be one of the worst launches in Stern Pinball history
"When I play James Bond pinballd, I don't feel like I am James Bond. I don't feel like the Sean Connery James Bond, the womanizer, the guy with the gadgets, the guy with the fancy clothes, the guy with the jokes, I don't feel like I'm James Bond."
James Bond pinball doesn't make you feel like James Bond, lacks Sean Connery presence and magical moments
"The bigger issue with this machine itself is just the layout... I just don't find them that satisfying. I do find them tough to hit."
James Bond layout is problematic, especially the ramps which are difficult to hit and unsatisfying
"So we're still waiting on gameplay for this super-duper expensive single-level James Bond game with absolutely no movie assets in the entire game itself other than the ugly artwork."
James Bond 60th Edition is overpriced at $20,000 with no movie assets except ugly artwork
"There's definitely not a $20,000 pinball machine here... I still think for 99.9% of us, when we watch these rich owners try to justify their purchase, I still think the rest of us are still going to be pointing our fingers at these gentlemen and laughing at them for spending this much money on a game that barely has anything in it."
James Bond 60th anniversary edition is overpriced and lacks content for $19,995
"Enough with the media tour around James Bond. I don't need to hear anymore about what your plans are. Get it done for $10,000 premiums and $13,000 LEs. You should be embarrassed that you're putting a game out into the world that is this incomplete."
Stern should stop doing media tours for James Bond and just finish the code
"For those of you who jumped in on this game and spent $20,000 on a game in which you don't know what the gameplay really is like, you don't know what the code is, you don't know how many musical songs are gonna be in the game, I think you were foolish and I think you sent a message to Stern Pinball that we do have a bunch of suckers that will buy pinball machine without requiring much value."
Buyers of James Bond 60th Anniversary are foolish suckers who sent wrong message to Stern
"Trade in your old games and get the new overpriced Keith Elwin 60th anniversary included exclusive, not exclusive topper. The whole game is a joke. It's absolutely exposed everything that's wrong with pinball sales in 2022-2023."
James Bond 60th Anniversary edition is an overpriced joke that distributors can't sell
"This whole thing is a total joke. This game is a total launch failure by Stern Pinball."
James Bond 60th Anniversary is a total launch failure
"this game was so overpriced and is gonna go down as the worst launch in Stern's history it just is"
James Bond 60th Anniversary was massively overpriced and worst Stern launch ever
"This game was a failure. And the reason why it's a failure, Mr. Ed Robertson, if they priced this game properly, it would have sold out. It's not only not sold out. Distributors are sitting on a ton of this product."
James Bond 60th is a complete failure due to overpricing - should have been $12-13K max instead of $19,995
"I think people ask that about James Bond. I'm hearing James Bond sales are really weak."
James Bond sales are really weak due to poor value proposition
"This James Bond game is divided the community, but in the right way, where like 99% of us are on the right side of this argument."
James Bond 60th divided the community with 99% on the right side against it
"It's going to be a fun shooting game and it will never be worth anything close to $20,000."
James Bond will be a fun shooting game but never worth close to $20,000
"So you can't stack like a multiball with a villain mode if the multiball is not from the same movie as that villain. So think about that for a minute. Almost all of pinball coding revolves around this sort of layering up of all of the different elements in the franchise."
James Bond license restrictions could severely impact coding quality
"I don't think Gomez put a mech in this game that lives up to some of the other stuff he's put into his games. And I just don't think there's anything mechanically in this game that would make people go wow."
James Bond Premium lacks impressive mechanical features compared to other Gomez games
"I went from James Bond to Godzilla and I have to be candid. Godzilla shoots so much better than James Bond."
Godzilla shoots much better than James Bond
"A week from now, we're going to see Stern Pinball's James Bond 60th at some exorbitant price. And I think that game is going to land like a ton of bricks and it's not going to make people happy. It's going to be a greedy cash grab by Stern Pinball."
Stern's upcoming James Bond 60th will be a greedy cash grab that lands poorly