"I do think they're going to be a little bit shocked how the pinball buying demo doesn't want to catch Jigglypuff"
Pokemon won't resonate with pinball buying demographic unlike nostalgic 80s-90s themes
"I did ask him. Are you telling me George at age 70 you're designing Pokemon and he said Chris who said I'm designing Pokemon. So I think Pokemon is either gonna be Jack Danger or it's going to be Keith Elwin. So I think you heard it here first. I don't think George Gomez is finishing Pokemon"
George Gomez may not be designing Pokemon
"Pokemon, which runs circles around Star Wars and Harry Potter and Hello Kitty and Super Mario and Sonic. You name it. Pokemon is by far the biggest IP in the world"
Pokemon is the biggest IP in the world, bigger than Star Wars and Harry Potter
"Pokemon to me is funny because it is the world's biggest IP. But amongst the Pinball buying demographic, I just don't know... Die Hard. Fifth element. Big trouble in Little China... A tiny little John Carpenter niche movie would have more of you excited than Pokemon."
Pokemon is the biggest IP in pinball history but may not appeal to pinball demographic
"Pokemon has the most valuable thing. And the most valuable thing that usually translates into sales is a really enthusiastic and engaged community"
Pokemon will be successful in pinball due to its massive, engaged fanbase and multi-generational appeal
"Pokemon mark my words much like Star Wars will be a day one LE sell out not only that you won't be able to touch the LE's for anywhere near $13,000 it's just the power of IP"
Pokemon will be a day one LE sellout and won't be available near $13,000 due to IP power
"So Pokemon mark my words much like Star Wars will be a day one LE sell out not only that you won't be able to touch the LE's for anywhere near $13,000 it's just the power of IP. If Harry Potter only made a thousand CEs trust me it would have been more fun."
Prediction: Pokemon will be a day one LE sell out like Star Wars, and the LEs won't be available anywhere near $13,000 due to the power of the IP.
"When I walk around Pinball shows, when I see the people that attend, these are not Pokemon fans. They are not."
Pokemon fans don't match the typical pinball demographic
"I am worried that Pokemon is not this demo at all, at all... people in this community are not into Pokemon, it is just not gonna move like people think"
Pokemon will not move well in the pinball demographic
"They're gonna do a thousand LEs of Pokemon. They're gonna do four different LEs. Each will be a run of 250 that will feature a different Pokemon character on the LE. When you order in LE, you don't know what Pokemon character you're going to get. They need to do it like that. So it's like unwrapping or unboxing a pack of Pokemon cards and you don't know which one you're gonna get."
Pokemon pinball will have four different LE versions with random distribution
"There is no way the people who buy pinball, the people who care about pinball, the people that have even an inkling of this much money, there is no way these people want Pokemon. It is not a Pokemon crowd."
Pokemon won't save Stern - wrong demographic
"When I walked around pinfest and I looked at everybody there alright these these are the people right for better words this is the clan of people that buy pinball this is the tribe if you will these people are not going to buy Pokemon there is not a sync there's like nobody in the crowd of a pinball show that looks like a Pokemon fan"
Pokemon theme won't sell to pinball demographic
"The people in the Pokemon are not spending this kind of money. And the people who buy Pinball don't want Pokemon. It's just that simple."
Pokemon pinball will fail because demographics don't align with pinball buyers
"Do you really think the Pinball buying demographic, the Pinball buying demographic is going to open up its wallets to see Pikachu battle jigglypuff? I'm telling you right now. Pokemon is not going to do what people think it's going to do."
Pokemon won't succeed with the pinball buying demographic despite expectations
"Ladies and gentlemen, when are we gonna wake up and realize that there's a difference between valuable IP and IP that speaks to the pinball buying demographic. Picture them getting down to this song."
Pokemon is terrible IP for pinball demographic - targets wrong age group
"I don't see the Pokemon fan base and the pinball fan base overlapping very much."
Pokemon won't work for pinball despite being huge IP because demographics don't overlap
"I think it's going to be like another Star Wars. I think Star Wars, huge IP. It's a fun game. I just don't want to buy it. I think the same thing is going to be true with Pokemon."
Kaneda believes Pokemon will be like Star Wars - a fun game with huge IP that he won't want to buy
"I don't think Pokemon is going to be one of these games that skyrockets in value. I just don't think there's the overlap, enough overlap between the Pokemon fans and the pinball buying demographic."
Pokemon pinball won't be valuable due to lack of overlap between Pokemon fans and pinball collectors
"I heard that he sort of was sidelined by Gomez who wants to make a much more simple pin. And so now the latest rumors are that this game is going to be more of a reflection of a new Deadpool versus a game maybe like X-Men or Foo Fighters."
Pokemon design change from Jack Danger to George Gomez makes it less creative
"I'm here to tell you right now that I've heard now from a variety of people that Pokemon Pinball will be the ultimate. And I mean this, the ultimate disappointment in what Stern Pinball has become."
Pokemon Pinball will be the ultimate disappointment and representation of Stern's fractured culture