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<blockquote data-quote="Narc0lep5y" data-source="post: 291871" data-attributes="member: 5223"><p>Cabinet is so niche. I know we love them and I love mine, but they don’t move the meter enough for a software company. Theres no way the user base is anything close to something that development could be cost effective. The cost of entry is high. The software and set up is beyond complex. The community is great and there’s some PR value in catering to them, but it’s still a really small group. </p><p></p><p>The retail cabinets Zen is doing is really the best way to justify dev costs because they have another revenue stream to offset it with. If we get more features in cabinet mode as a result that’s a win. And in doing this, Zen has done something none of the other pinball software developers has done in finding another way to offset those dev costs. . </p><p></p><p>Selling a cabinet mode upgrade has almost no value to Zen. The installed base is low. At least a portion of those users probably already have fx3 anyway so there’s not much additional revenue for tables. And I’d argue that charging additional for a cabinet mode at anything more than a $20 price point does more damage to their reputation than they would gain in PR from those who buy it. And every point higher in price creates greater expectations from an already vocal crowd for features and support. </p><p></p><p>I’d love active backglass and better camera placement and head tracking and SSF support but when the community has already done most of those things themselves, that just further lowers the base of potential purchasers. Look at those people on this forum that didn’t pony up the money for Arcooda cabinet mode because NoEx solution did most of it already as an example of that. </p><p></p><p>Now apply that same logic to cab owners who don’t want to pay for tables in fx3 because they have the table in VPX or FP and knock some more off the list and that small base just keeps shrinking. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Narc0lep5y, post: 291871, member: 5223"] Cabinet is so niche. I know we love them and I love mine, but they don’t move the meter enough for a software company. Theres no way the user base is anything close to something that development could be cost effective. The cost of entry is high. The software and set up is beyond complex. The community is great and there’s some PR value in catering to them, but it’s still a really small group. The retail cabinets Zen is doing is really the best way to justify dev costs because they have another revenue stream to offset it with. If we get more features in cabinet mode as a result that’s a win. And in doing this, Zen has done something none of the other pinball software developers has done in finding another way to offset those dev costs. . Selling a cabinet mode upgrade has almost no value to Zen. The installed base is low. At least a portion of those users probably already have fx3 anyway so there’s not much additional revenue for tables. And I’d argue that charging additional for a cabinet mode at anything more than a $20 price point does more damage to their reputation than they would gain in PR from those who buy it. And every point higher in price creates greater expectations from an already vocal crowd for features and support. I’d love active backglass and better camera placement and head tracking and SSF support but when the community has already done most of those things themselves, that just further lowers the base of potential purchasers. Look at those people on this forum that didn’t pony up the money for Arcooda cabinet mode because NoEx solution did most of it already as an example of that. Now apply that same logic to cab owners who don’t want to pay for tables in fx3 because they have the table in VPX or FP and knock some more off the list and that small base just keeps shrinking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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