Moving Units: Pinball Sales Tracker (#7)

Hey, it's finally time for another entry in our Moving Units tracker. Hooray. It's been a while since our last check-in. Mostly, we've been watching the furious pace of Pokémon, really the only 2026 release whose performance is still an open question. Beetlejuice is shipping too, but it's a sold-out boutique run, so we already know roughly where that one lands.

Besides that, 2025 is mostly old news. Harry Potter's still an excellent performer for Jersey Jack, King Kong and D&D keep plugging along, and nothing else Stern's shipped has really broken through. That's the quiet theme of the whole update. What's actually "moving" is a narrow list: Pokémon, a couple of games we already knew were selling, and boutiques slowly catching up on sold-out limited runs. Busy-looking, but narrow. (One of my own predictions from last year also comes due in here, and it's about to look pretty silly. More below.)

This edition, I'm including the very first look at our production-estimation model, which we've been building behind the scenes most of the year. Where the tracker series tries to answer "how well is a game selling?", this tries to answer "how many games were produced?" In pinball, that's an important distinction: what gets produced doesn't always line up with what winds up in the market, depending on how much inventory settles at various rungs of the distribution ladder. It's a first look, and focused only on recent Stern games as a starting point.

One housekeeping note. I've retired the standalone 2024 table — those games are deep in their long tail now, and they show up this time through the production lens instead. Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye and Yukon Yeti join the 2026 section. Everything below compares mid-March to the start of June.

Let's do the thing.