There were many interesting things at this year’s G2E. In this week’s Green Felt Journal, I discuss a few that stood out to me:
Among the more important topics addressed at the annual Global Gaming Expo, held earlier this month at the Sands Expo Center, focused on an industry in transition. Even as the number of casinos where people can gamble is increasing, the interest of millennials—those born more or less after 1981—may be waning. So those running casinos and those who make the machines that currently fill them have a dilemma: How do they reach out to new customers—without alienating their existing ones?
I feel that we’re on the threshold of a major change in what kinds of games are on casino floors. I’m gathering info for the 2015 Table Games Report (which I will preview at Raving’s Cutting Edge Table Games Conference next month) and it looks like tables are continuing to gain ground on slots. I think that casinos and manufacturers will start experimenting with different kinds of machines to address that trend.