by Steve Norton
CEO, Norton Management

Gambling bosses discuss future of the industry at ICE 2017 

My comment:

Millennial's have grown up on video games, where skill is an important requisite. Even though the slot manufacturers are developing games that require skill. But to introduce skill in a slot machine, forgets that the typical slot game has a decision every 5 or 6 seconds, leaving little time for serious intellectual thought.

But on the Strip, in Las Vegas, the larger casinos have learned to profit away from the casino games themselves, and several have devoted areas of their properties with non gaming amenities that appeal to the younger audience. In fact the Strip dependence on casino win has declined below 35% of total revenue, where in Atlantic City it is still at 70 percent, and the non casino departments earning 73 percent of all department profit.