Fruit Machine Chat

probably too geeky for most but I found it interesting a breakdown of the market in a geographical area within Hampshire. As has been the case for a while Games Warehouse dominate with few others making much of an impact.The Open conversions have definetly had an effect.

pubs 187

games warehouse 110 58%
gamesnet 35 18.7%
open/hotwire/dice 23 12.2%
games media 11 5.8%
inde's 3 1.6%
itbox 2 1.0% others 3 1.6%

and dont anybody DARE say the percentages dont add up exactly!

cool wrote:probably too geeky for most but I found it interesting a breakdown of the market in a geographical area within Hampshire. As has been the case for a while Games Warehouse dominate with few others making much of an impact.The Open conversions have definetly had an effect.

pubs 187

games warehouse 110 58%
gamesnet 35 18.7%
open/hotwire/dice 23 12.2%
games media 11 5.8%
inde's 3 1.6%
itbox 2 1.0% others 3 1.6%

and dont anybody DARE say the percentages dont add up exactly!

Very interesting - but one important stat missed as well - how many pubs with no machine?

these are sites in one area that I have known for years,not a survey of hundreds of sites with/without machines.There has, as in most other areas of the country a contraction in the number of pubs in surburban locations with change of use primarily to flats but I know of a pub that has become a vets whilst another is a chiropractic clinic.The areas that have fared best are the inner city sites where there is a clustering of large branded pubs as well as in the tourist locaties such as the south coast resorts and the New Forest. There has been a slow decline in the number of sites overall discounting the closed pubs.

was you in havant last week playing the quiz machines cool?

not me but it is one of my haunts....

last time there about 5wks ago

Games Warehouse certainly dominate in pubs in Norfolk and Suffolk.