"The whole rollout of Spike 3 has been embarrassingly bad. And because they never took the time to go over Spike 3 from head to toe, they're now stuck doing it this way, where every little incremental change is being noticed by the community"
Stern's Spike 3 rollout has been embarrassingly bad due to poor communication
"I don't really like the new platform. I know they made the screen bigger but making those speakers smaller doesn't look as good. Just aesthetically, it doesn't look as good"
Spike 3 platform looks worse aesthetically with smaller speakers despite bigger screen
"What if I told you that Spike 3 isn't gonna be a new platform? I think everyone's thinking about it like that. I think everyone thinks that stern pinball is gonna go from head to toe and make all of these significant changes to their platform"
Spike 3 won't be a major platform overhaul - more like incremental processing improvements rolled out gradually
"I'm just gonna go out on a limb right now and I think Spike 3 is gonna be underwhelming... I think DLC and Seth Davis steering this company towards DLC, I think is gonna backfire on Stern"
Spike 3 platform will be underwhelming and DLC focus will backfire
"I think Spike 3 is going to be all about internet connectivity and I think Stern Pinball is waiting until they flip the switch and have like hundreds of thousands of machines out there with internet connected and then guess what's going to happen? They're going to want each and every one of you to do micro transactions to get new modes in your game."
Spike 3 will focus on internet connectivity and microtransactions
"I'd be concerned, I'd be concerned if I were buying new Stern machines about the long-term reliability of spike system and these node boards. And they're prone to fail over and over and over again."
Concerned about long-term reliability of Stern's Spike system and node boards