Regarding your presence at G2E Las Vegas, can you name the highlights of the firm at this edition?

• Ocean Spin was one of the top highlights at G2E 2022. Ranked the industry's #1 new premium series according to ReelMetrics, Ocean Spin features cross-machine animation effects, spanning into the topper and across multiple game cabinets. Throughout primary play, bubbles of potential jackpot opportunities float seamlessly across game screens of every connected machine. Whenever any 3 or more trigger symbols are collected, the Ocean Spin Feature is awarded, and the player is invited to spin the bonus prize bubbles that appear across all screens. Once the player swipes the screen to spin, prize bubbles rotate across all screens until the spinner lands on an instant progressive jackpot or bonus award.

• Konami’s Triple Sparkle series is another key showcase. This is a top new series that takes popular Konami base games like Solstice Celebration, Lotus Land, and Imperial Wealth, and adds a symbol-driven jackpot mechanic. Many may recall the popular sparkle feature in Konami’s classic Solstice Celebration, which awards a bonus symbol transformation when any two or more framed Action Stacked Symbols appear fully on the reels, potentially resulting in large line wins or free games. With Konami’s new Triple Sparkle games, this symbol transformation can include instant progressive jackpot awards. The additional progressive jackpot chance has already shown success in the field, and today we have 5 different Triple Sparkle games available to operators. This series has ranked in the industry’s Top Indexing New Games, Core, Video Reel for 9 months. 

• We also saw positive feedback for Fortune Mint, ranked in the industry’s Top Indexing New Games, Core, Video Reel for 11 months. Fortune Mint debuts a random Question Mark Feature to amp the mystery and anticipation. It randomly places big red question mark symbols over the Coins in the center reels. Each Question Marked coin is revealed one-by-one to award the player instant Maxi, Major, Mini, 10x, 3x, or 2x prizes, with dramatic effect. 

Triple Sparkle, Ocean Spin, and Fortune Mint are available now on Konami’s portrait screen DIMENSION 49, ranked the industry’s #1 Top Indexing Portrait / Portrait Slant cabinet for 10 months.

What was your business or promotion strategy at G2E?

Since last year, Konami has delivered a number of wins for casinos, including top game entertainment, proven reliable DIMENSION hardware, and high-demand SYNKROS casino systems solutions.

So for G2E 2022, Konami showcased entertainment and technology rooted in the winning experience, through fun DIMENSION content and more SYNKROS advancements made to create, facilitate, and reinforce winning moments.

What do you think the feedback for your new products exposed at G2E was like?

Visitors at G2E Las Vegas responded very positively to the latest Konami entertainment. Our international customers are returning to business with the ability to take advantage of proven reliable DIMENSION hardware and top performing games. These products have been tested in the market, and demonstrated success, which we’re excited to deliver to our customers in markets abroad.

How did you use this space to learn about your customer´s need?

Our focus is connecting with customers and giving them a chance to try the latest innovations first-hand. That is the most important G2E opportunity for us. This year’s event saw exceptionally high attendance from our key customers across international markets. Konami and its exclusive international distributors enjoyed the opportunity to spend a lot of quality time with operators at the show—discussing the latest observations from the field, exploring opportunities to support their business, and creating plans for both the immediate months and long-term future.