Inside Asian Gaming

IAG FEB 2022年2月 亞博匯 106 TECH TALK operators simply because businesses in many cases had up to 50% of their floor turned off. It was difficult for our customers to justify expenditure for newer style slot products when potentially you buy a bank of 10 and half of them have to be turned off because of social distancing. That said, we have honed our product roadmap for the region and our systems business throughout Asia remains very strong, just as it has for many years. Wewere fortunate enough at IGT that the ADVANTAGE system was successful in a couple of large deals in the Philippines – in particular the Royce expansion (Clark) and the NUSTAR Casino opening (Cebu). That aspect of our business in the region was very solid. BB: What should we look out for in 2022 in terms of new product? MC: Development of our linked products will continue with our Australian and Beijing studio teams having gone into the themed development of our linked product – primarily our very successful Yin Cai Shen family of games. There will also be a new link for our CrystalDual 27 cabinet in a game called Yin Fu Wa which has two linked progressive options and two scalable bonuses that give the operator more flexibility in attracting players. It is also our first major step for the market into a CrystalDual 27 multi- denomination link so we look forward to getting that out into the market. We’ll be launching Yin Cai Shen in Singapore – game approvals do take longer there but that’s on track for this year and we think it is a very suitable game for the Singapore market. We also have a very strong family of Cash Cove games 果你購買了10台博彩機器但其中一半不 得不因社交距離而關閉時，就很難證明 更新博彩機產品的支出是合理的。 儘管如此，我們已經完善了該地區 的產品路線圖，我們在整個亞洲的系統 業務仍然一如既往的非常強大。IGT非常 幸運，ADVANTAGE系統在菲律賓的幾 筆大宗交易中都取得了成功——尤其是 克拉克的Royce酒店的擴建，以及宿霧 的NUSTAR娛樂場的開張。我們在這方 面的業務十分穩固。 BB：2022年的新產品都有哪些亮點？ MC： 我們將繼續連線遊戲產品的開發， 我們在澳洲及北京的工作室將大量資源 投入到相關產品的主題開發中——主要 圍繞著我們大獲成功的「迎財神」系列 遊戲。 而我們的CrystalDual 27機櫃也將 增加一款新的連線遊戲「迎福娃」。這 款遊戲不僅新增兩個互相關聯的連線積 累選項，還有兩款拓展的獎勵，令玩家 可更靈活地吸引玩家。這也是我們為 CrystalDual 27機櫃進入多面值連線累 積市場邁出的重要一步，我們期待將其 推向市場。 我們將在新加坡推出「迎財神」 系列——遊戲審批在當地需要更多的時 間，有望於今年實現。我們認為這是一 款非常適合新加坡市場的遊戲。我們還 有一款非常有競爭力的「Cash Cove」 系列遊戲。我們事實上正計劃發佈了該 係列遊戲的錦標賽版本，玩家可在錦標 賽模式中享受現金遊戲的樂趣，同時在 賽事環境中體驗遊戲。這也將有助於 我們的客戶針對不同級別的玩家進行