Posted On: 03/31/2015 12:19:20 PM
Post# of 96892
Mar 30, 2015
by
Rachel Christiansen
Back in the good ole days, a typical visitor to Las Vegas might spend all day at a slot machine, take a break for dinner and a show, and then spend the rest of his night back at the slot machines.
We now know that’s not quite the way it works anymore – as evidenced by the influx of high-end shopping centers, five-star restaurants and chic nightclubs. These new glitz and glam offerings are outweighing the possibility of getting rich by gambling – a possibility that seems slimmer and slimmer the more we know about gaming analytics.
Nonetheless, gambling is still one of the top revenue producers for casinos. Despite the fact that gambling revenue in the state is down nearly half a billion dollars from pre-recession numbers, with the economic bounce back, gambling will likely be as strong as ever, albeit with some different faces.
NanoTech Gaming, for example, is one company with a prototype of slot machine that not only combines the entertainment of playing a skill-based video game with traditional gambling, it will actually tell you what your odds are.
Las Vegas Advisor publisher Anthony Curtis said that the new generation of gamblers isn’t interested in “grandma slots,” or “pulling handles,” they want something they can relate to – like video games.
by
Rachel Christiansen
Back in the good ole days, a typical visitor to Las Vegas might spend all day at a slot machine, take a break for dinner and a show, and then spend the rest of his night back at the slot machines.
We now know that’s not quite the way it works anymore – as evidenced by the influx of high-end shopping centers, five-star restaurants and chic nightclubs. These new glitz and glam offerings are outweighing the possibility of getting rich by gambling – a possibility that seems slimmer and slimmer the more we know about gaming analytics.
Nonetheless, gambling is still one of the top revenue producers for casinos. Despite the fact that gambling revenue in the state is down nearly half a billion dollars from pre-recession numbers, with the economic bounce back, gambling will likely be as strong as ever, albeit with some different faces.
NanoTech Gaming, for example, is one company with a prototype of slot machine that not only combines the entertainment of playing a skill-based video game with traditional gambling, it will actually tell you what your odds are.
Las Vegas Advisor publisher Anthony Curtis said that the new generation of gamblers isn’t interested in “grandma slots,” or “pulling handles,” they want something they can relate to – like video games.
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