The Beatles

"The one game where it all failed, the marketing experiment was a total failure was Beatles... I'm glad it failed because I think they overestimated the popularity of Beatles today within this demographic"

Beatles pinball marketing experiment was a total failure

"Beatles was the biggest price joke ever, even more than El Vira, even more, even more so... a year later, there are tons of people who are going to get a lot of Beatles, Platinum and Diamonds still available, especially considering how few of them they made, they're not selling. They're not selling at all."

The Beatles pricing was a massive failure

"I just played a Beatles yesterday and I have to tell you it's a fun pin it's a fun pin it's the world's greatest five thousand dollar pinball experience you can play. At 25,000 at twelve thousand at eight or nine thousand dollars it's a joke it's a total joke there's nothing in it"

Beatles pinball is vastly overpriced - world's greatest $5000 experience being sold for $25k

"I just thought it was so obnoxious to charge what they charged for the platinum and diamond editions... if you paid $25,000 for a diamond edition God help you"

Beatles pinball overpriced and not selling well

"The Beatles is a game that when it came out, right, we all sort of lost our shit because of the pricing of the game. But the Beatles really is a great game to play with people. It is a lot of fun."

Beatles is a great game for groups despite pricing backlash

"I think Beatles will go down as a fun game that was just always significantly overpriced and was always targeting a sort of strange collector because I don't think the Beatles collectors are going to gobble this up like they think"

Beatles pinball games will depreciate quickly and are significantly overpriced

"So if you bought a Beatles diamond edition for $25,000, you might want to go outside and just kick your own ass because you just blew 10 grand on a game that really the only difference is a little plaque on the apron."

Beatles Diamond Edition buyers who paid $25K should kick their own ass for wasting $10K

"I think the diamond and the platinum editions are complete complete and utter rip-offs there's absolutely nothing that warrants the price of those games"

Beatles Diamond and Platinum editions are complete rip-offs

"this is not meant to be a pinball machine that is for location play... Why would you put a Beatles pro on location? I don't get it"

Beatles not suitable for location play

"Let me just stop there for a second. No it doesn't. No it does not. Being number two out of 100 doesn't make it more collectible. Why? Why would that be more collectible?"

Being number 2 out of 100 doesn't make Beatles Diamond Edition more collectible

"they're totally designed to fleece the obsessive Beatles collector into buying this game because no Pinball collectors actually going to go in on those super expensive versions"

Beatles Diamond/Platinum editions were designed to fleece Beatles collectors, not pinball collectors

"here is a thing about stern beatles... there's one idiotic topic that I keep hearing when it comes to the beetles and it's being driven by probably the biggest fool on pinside... this game is a collectible it's not meant to go on location I don't even think it was meant to have coin doors"

Beatles pinball earnings on location is an idiotic discussion because it's designed as a collectible, not a route game

"It's still I still think it's overpriced. I do. I think the Beatles gold should be like $6,000. And I think the platinum edition should be like $7,500 to $8. And I think the diamond should be like whatever. 10 to 12. About 25. But again, again, I understand why they're doing it the way they're doing it."

Beatles pinball is overpriced but understandably designed for casual players

"I do think that $30,000 for a pinball machine that is the exact same game as something that is $8,000 is beyond ludicrous."

Beatles Diamond Edition at $30,000 is beyond ludicrous - same game as $8,000 version

"when people looked at the Beatles pinball machine and they saw that Stern just re-skinned an old machine, I understand why people are upset...that one looks like the cash grab"

The Beatles pinball machine was a cash grab that deserved better treatment from Stern

"It may have appeal, but it will never justify the cost"

Beatles as operator game doesn't justify $8000 cost despite potential appeal

"I don't have a problem with stern making the Beatles. I think the pinball world has needed a very simple game for a long time that people can walk up to and play and I think the Beatles does that"

Beatles pinball is appropriately priced at $8000 for its simplicity and serves a needed role as a simple game for casual players

"Let me restate that. This is the biggest joke in pinball history. And it's embarrassing that this marketing move is coming from the one company that does not need to do this."

Beatles Diamond Edition at $25,000 is the biggest joke in pinball history - it's just a Seawitch reskin

"I absolutely love the Beatles Pinball. Without a doubt, I think this is a really, really cool game. I love the approach of making a Beatles Pinball machine that is a throwback to what a 1964's Beatles Pinball machine might have looked like if it came out back in the day."

Beatles Pinball is a really cool game - throwback to 1964, simpler gameplay accessible to casual players

"This game has been unfairly roasted. Especially from a company that's already given you three great games this year and usually does three to four games a year for you to choose from."

Beatles game has been unfairly roasted despite Stern delivering three great games already this year

"I guess I would say I disapprove because it's not what people expected, clearly. They expected everyone pictured in their mind, like hippie trippy graphics, like late 1960s."

Beatles pinball disappoints because people expected modern hippie trippy graphics, not classic approach

"It is a toy. It is an unnecessary toy that is supposed to provide some temporary pleasure into the world... somewhere under all of that rubble of debate of anger of conversation remains a simple pinball machine that is just a toy to bring joy to people"

Beatles pinball controversy is exhausting and people have lost sight that pinball machines are just toys for entertainment

"There is no difference in this game at all between the $7,500 version and the $25,000 version other than artwork... how in the world could you pay $17,000 more for something just because it has different artwork."

Beatles Diamond Edition pricing is absurd at $25,000

"I really do think Stern is not going to have trouble selling this game. Do I think they'll sell 250 at that price? Yes, I do."

Stern Beatles is designed as a home collectible, not an operator machine, and will sell well despite Pinside criticism

"I'm not sold that people that want to just gobble up anything beetles will gobble up this game and will really want this game and will consider this to be something that is sought after and rare"

Stern's Beatles strategy will fail because Beatles collectors won't buy pinball machines

"I think this game out of all of the games Stern has ever done. I think this one is probably the most polarizing pinball machine ever released"

Beatles is the most polarizing pinball machine Stern has ever released

"A $35,000 pinball machine is fucking stupid. Okay, let's just stop playing games here. Let's stop being idiots. A $35,000 pinball machine. I mean, it's stupid. It's stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid."

Beatles pricing rumors - Premium at $10K, LE at $18K, Diamond Edition at $35K are ridiculous

"I don't think we're gonna see the level of crossover from Beatles fanatics and collectors to have to have these machines. And again, I think Star Wars is more of an indication of that is Stern overshot with 800 LEs and there really wasn't that kind of interest in it."

Beatles collectors won't rush to buy Beatles pinball like Supreme collectors did

"I am not a fan of the Beatles. I don't hate the Beatles music. I'm just not a fan of the Beatles... Pope fiction as a theme for pinball. I think is I don't know. I don't like that. I just I just think pinball should be more campy, more fun, more like upbeat and colorful themes."

Negative opinion on Beatles and Pulp Fiction as pinball themes

"This art package blows the sea which art package away. The sea which art package looks like something I drew in the fucking third fucking grade."

Beatles art package is superior to Seawitch

"This machine is supposed to look like the pinball machine, the Beatles would have got, if the Beatles would have had a pinball machine back in 1964."

Beatles pinball is intentionally designed as what a 1964 Beatles pin would have looked like - a throwback celebration