The reason I think arcade games are diminishing is because of the way they are distributed. When you buy and arcade game you can not buy it from sega for say, you would buy it from a third party who would buy the pats and assemble and sell them as a cabinet game, this drastically ups the price as there limited vendors, and even more limited repair as its hard to get parts and repair. As a manager of a restaurant who had the ability to pick out our 12 arcade games I can tell you that they are overpriced for what you get, 500-2000 for a used machine is a joke when the parts must cost sub 500 to manufacture.

thranx said: The reason I think arcade games are diminishing is because of the way they are distributed. When you buy and arcade game you can not buy it from sega for say, you would buy it from a third party who would buy the pats and assemble and sell them as a cabinet game, this drastically ups the price as there limited vendors, and even more limited repair as its hard to get parts and repair. As a manager of a restaurant who had the ability to pick out our 12 arcade games I can tell you that they are overpriced for what you get, 500-2000 for a used machine is a joke when the parts must cost sub 500 to manufacture.

That's definitely something to consider. I always heard about how prohibitively expensive each machine was.

Set costs like monthly memperships and selling drinks or other high profit foods to pick up the slack. Also, hold LAN parties and Halo tournaments and what not, but charge a fee. Having only an arcade is not enough in my opinion.

Time machine.

i think they could make it work for rent games.

but they will need support from developers and sony microsoft.

console like arcade where you can pick the games u want to play.

u can keep your saves in USB or memory card.
u rent "machine" and it's not limited to one game but different fighers.

but i am sure people will be willing to pay for that.

it may force people to buy the console to keep playing since after a while it gets expensive.

Arcades are only dead in North America. In Europe and Japan, they are alive and well.

A lot of it has to do with the social aspect. In America, if you wanted to hang with some friends to play video games, you'd most likely go to one of their houses. In Japan or Europe, you wouldn't do this because for one thing, peoples' houses are a lot smaller, and in Japan anyway, it just isn't socially acceptable to go over to someone's house to "hang out."

There's also transportation. In America, everyone has a car, so when you need to go out, you hop into your vehicle, drive to where you're going, do what you're going to do, come back, and it's over. Far less people in Japan and Europe own cars(I think 75% of the respective populations don't own them), so when they go out, they walk or take public transit which means that they're going to be out a lot longer, so it makes sense that they'd stop and play some games at an arcade in a shopping plaza while they're out and about.

if arcades can get me to play a game after watching a movie then they can come back, in NA going and watching movies is part of the culture. If they can make arcades part of that, then why not?

IF they make Ace Combat 7 arcade ONLY forever, I'll spend my entire fortune on coins...

Make decent arcade games. Most arcade games are so shit-arsed bollucks that no one gives a fuck. And they're all (good + bad) available on console anyway, which is far more cost-effective for gamers (the only people who would go to an arcade for a social event, anywho).

cut the price to free, maybe this could help