Did you happen to hear any word on when a coin/relic version will be coming down the pike?
No dates...just that other variations will be based off this PI platform.
This is just me thinking out loud....based on info they have released publicly in Facebook groups and forums.
1. We know FTP likes to spread out their tech across Bounty Hunter - Teknetics - Fisher. This Impulse AQ from Fisher is $2000-2500 supposedly. We could very well see the relic PI under the Teknetics brand at say $1200-1500. I would think the gold version is under Fisher still as FTP considers Fisher #1...Tek #2...BH #3. I won't speculate the price of the gold version. Could be GPZ high for all I know.
2. They have said the French team is doing the PI...the El Paso team is working on "other projects". One could assume a Nox/Deus/Anfibio killer...and maybe the other PI spins-offs?
3. We very well could see them do their famous re-branding and send the G2+...T2...F75...Omega 8500....to Bounty Hunter. Or maybe a $750 Bounty Hunter version of the PI? That would drop some jaws.
4. I imagine they want to keep their stranglehold on the $50 to $500 range that they currently have. Surely they are aware of the Simplex pricing....and the fact Minelab chose such a low price for the 600 and 800. So I'm guessing we see the PI start high at $2500....and then subsequent releases lower/higher after that...shifting room for future releases as they go. Then as that hype dies off....the El Paso release happens and starts it all up again?
5. They recently built a new HUGE state of the art warehouse...and people greatly underestimate their capital from the night vision and circuit printing. I LOL when I hear people talk about them going broke. The Tracker 4 and Gold Digger alone make them more in a month then all of White's catalog in an entire year. In my eyes...they are getting ready to pump out a boatload of releases that basically has brother and sister and cousins at just about every price point you can imagine....and I figure they stagger them out every few months so all eyes are on them for a while.
Let me reiterate...this is just opinion based on what some of the higher-ups have posted
publicly in forums and on Facebook in the last few months. Grain of salt like always.