Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Who are the major slot manufacturers?

There are 700,000 to 1,000,000 slot machines in the US. That number is not precise because there are so many different gaming jurisdictions and not all of them publish (or collect) information that is accessible to compile.

The biggest slot manufacturers are listed in rough order from top to bottom.

IGT (by far the largest)
Aristocrat (#2 in the US now over the last five years, based in Australia)
Bally (The oldest slot company, struggled recently but still making games)
WMS (Chicago based, lots of new games)
AC Coin and Slot (puts games out with IGT)
Atronic (Privately held, has machines in most US casinos)
Konami (Part of the big video game company)
Ainsworth (another Australia company)
GTECH/Spielo (Canada company that was purchased by GTECH, smaller player)

There are lots of smaller manufacturers that have a lot of machines in certain areas of the country.

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