"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
"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