Now there was major international pop-culture media announcing that these kids are more interested in bars, music, and entertainment. This new generation, the largest in the history of the world, clearly doesn’t have their parents’ and grandparents’ propensity for gambling. And, especially, that our slot machines might be losing their appeal. Flaws in slot machines random number generators.
In our Wall-Street-fueled universe of investment-grade “gaming”, there are some things that should remain only whispers inside the industry and some things that should remain completely unspoken.
The headline was ominous: “Has Las Vegas pushed its luck too far?” Truthfully, it was nothing that our industry had not been whispering internally for years but, for God sake, this was NOT something the whole world should know.