Inside Asian Gaming

IAG APR 2022年4月 亞博匯 28 COVER STORY the boards back then is not as great as what we need today,” Jolly continues. “Obviously since then graphics have improved, so boards have had to increase their horsepower.” Exactly what this means for each supplier depends on the products they currently have in the market, with 2.0 compliance ultimately coming down to the features of each style of cabinet and the platform they use. In most instances, the newest cabinets released into Macau, such as Light & Wonder’s Kascada, Aristocrat’s MarsX or IGT’s Crystal Series are well equipped to facilitate compliance, with most of the respective companies’ new games to be released via those cabinets and under 2.0 specifications. Others – the older cabinets in the market stretching back to before EGM Technical Standards 1.1 in 2014 – simply don’t have the power to run the latest technologies and are in line to be decommissioned, even though many of the games they host continue to perform well. These include the likes of Light & Wonder’s Equinox and Aristocrat’s Viridian cabinets, both more than 10 years old. Sitting right in the middle, however, are cabinets such as “The big decision everyone has to make is how many games to redo and at what opportunity cost, because we only have so many resources to devote to game development for the region.” 「每家公司都必須做出多少遊戲需要重做 以及需要付出多少機會成本的重大決定， 因為我們僅有有限資源可用於該地區的遊 戲開發。」