Slot machine sales in North America rose 40.3 per cent in the first quarter over last year to 29,174 games and 32.3 per cent over the fourth quarter, according to Todd Eilers’ quarterly Key Performance Indicators.
Most of that growth was from replacement sales, which jumped 56.4 per cent over last year. IGT has the lion’s share of the sales at 38 per cent, which was two per cent above its trailing 12-month average.
Small suppliers continued to take share from the big five of IGT, Bally, Aristocrat, WMS and Konami. They earned 16 per cent ship share, up a whopping 11 points from last year and two points above the fourth quarter.
Gaming operations grew 0.6 per cent with Multimedia Games making the biggest gains and Aristocrat and Bally growing ship share, too. International slot sales were flat against the fourth quarter with Aristocrat leading and followed, in order, by IGT, WMS, Ainsworth, SHFL and BYI.
BYI continued to dominate systems, increasing its leading position to 57.2 per cent of the quarter’s $135.4m revenue.
