Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAN 2021年1月 亞博匯 72 clear that enterprises relying on the aggregation of large numbers of people as the foundation of their respective business models are at risk of floundering in a post-pandemic world where doing almost everything remotely is now en vogue. Professional sports leagues though, despite limitations on attendance, have been spared the carnage of extensive lost revenue, primarily because of the big bucks they generate from their online and TV broadcast partners. It’s the reason most major leagues have been able to play through the pandemic – avoiding the business interruptions that have plagued so many other consumer industries including airlines, hotels, movie cinemas and retail malls, not to mention IRs. This begs the question of whether demand for entertainment activities that do not have an online or media angle can ever recover to a pre-pandemic level. To be sure, commerce in the USA was already trending in a direction that favored more immersive online experiences even before the pandemic exacerbated the shift. Virtual reality and multi-player video game industries have already disintermediated traditional entertainment and large mass-media conglomerates have taken note. As a response, companies such as Disney and Universal Studios have massively diversified, offering a variety of products and streaming services that leverage and not just rely on theme park content. In that regard, at least one sector of the gaming business has capitalized from the incredible shift to online commerce. Sports wagering in the USA is experiencing tremendous growth and is utilizing technological advances in streaming and digital networking to effectively alter the casino gaming sector’s supply-and-demand fundamentals. Its extraordinary evolution made possible by the Supreme Court’s COLUMNISTS