In the Eilers-Fantini report for March, new-ranked games by High 5 Games or White Hat Studios dominated the list of top-ranking titles.
The top three games in terms of gross gaming revenues remained the same from February. This was also true for the charts of suppliers, with Games Global closely competing against the big three – Evo IGT and Light & Wonder.
The research firm’s newly-released Canadian report is continuing to grow. It reveals a close race between Play, and IGT, for the top supplier spot.
US Performance
The Eilers/Fantini March breakdown begins with the GGR top 10 chart. Almost all of the games that made up last month’s list were in the same order, but in different places.
IGT’s Blackjack, and Cash Eruption swapped places on the top chart in March. Cash Eruption took the top spot with a share of 2.71 percent of GGR while Blackjack was second with 2.45 percent.
Anaxi, the online version of Buffalo continued to be a high-performance title after it secured consecutive third places. It came in at 1.89 percent of GGR.
The only other game that broke into the Top 10 was Games Global’s Fire and Rosesjoker, which took the fourth spot with 1.18 percent of GGR. IGT’s Cleopatra rose to the fifth spot in March from its seventh-place finish in February.
Slots dominated the list of the 25 best-performing games, accounting for 16 titles. Five live casino games, three tables games, and one title in video poker rounded out the remainder.
Cash Eruption is ranked second, and IGT Blackjack remains in the top spot.
The rest of the top 5 saw a slight shift, Evolution’s Live Dealer Speed Baccarat leapfrogged AGS to claim the third position, while the latter settled for the fourth.
Live Dealer Lightning Roulette by Evolution climbed from sixth place to fifth, as Blazing Bison Gold Blitz of Games Global fell from fifth to 18th position.
The games by GGR chart also showed that this title was a big loser. It had fallen from 4th to 10th position with a GGR drop of 1.36 to 0.92 percent.
In the charts that focus on slots, IGT Cash Eruption and AGS Capital Gains slots remained at first and second respectively. 88 fortunes by Light & Wonder moved up from fourth to third place, as Blazing Bison Gold Blitz dropped from third to tenth place.
The rest of the five spots were occupied by Jin Ji Xi Endless treasure, which climbed from fourth to third, and IGT’s Cleopatra, which jumped ten positions from fifteen to five.
The number of studios represented in March dropped slightly. While 12 companies were present on the February top 25 slot chart, only 11 appeared this month, including High 5 Games (Playtech), Reel Play Greentube, and White Hat Studios.
The top two games in the latest game ranking are Anaxi’s Buffalo Gold Collection, and AGS Platinum 8x8x8x, in the first and second places, respectively.
IGT’s new rankings for Wheel of Fortune Gold Spin Double Red Hot Sevens have taken the bronze medal, while Games Global’s Gold Blitz Fishin Pots of Gold has dropped to fourth place.
The top 5 was rounded off by High 5 Games’ latest East Asian slot, 88 Drums. This finished ahead of White Hat Studios, whose Peaky Blinders Jackpot Royale.
Slots dominated the charts for the second consecutive month. All 25 of the games in the chart were slot games.
Evolution topped the charts as usual with 19.5% of GGR. IGT, Light & Wonder and their respective sports ranked second and third, with 17.6 percent and 14.6%, respectively.
Games Global, which ranked fourth in February, has gained ground on the top three suppliers. Its share of GGR increased from 9.7% to 9.9%.
In contrast, IGT and Light & Wonder have 86 percent slots while Evolution has 85.6 percent slots.
Slots dominated the overall games, with 91.6 per cent, and table games at just 3.5 percent.
The next highest percentage was 1.9 percent, followed by live casinos at 1.7 percent, video pokers’ 0.9 and bingo/keno’s 0.2%.
The mobile device generated 69.8 percent of the theoretical wins, beating out desktops’ 29.2 percent and tablets’ one-percent.
The latest data analysis of online casinos in Michigan, West Virginia Pennsylvania New Jersey Connecticut, and Connecticut, which tracked 51 818 games, represents around 64% of the US market.
Canada statistics
Eilers-Fantini’s Canadian Analysis continues to grow, as the report covers statistics for 10 online casinos and tracks 10,080 different games in five provinces.
The Canadian Top Games by GGR Charts show that IGT’s title Cash Eruption took the first spot with 1,62 percent of GGR. This was followed by two Pragmatic play slots: Sweet Bonanza, and Sugar Rush, which were in second and third places respectively, with 1,51 and 1.13 percent.
The fourth-placed title, Cleopatra from IGT was ranked with GGR of 1.05 percent. Live Dealer Roulette by Evolution, which had been rated first last month in the category with 0.91 percent GGR fell to place five with just 0.91 cents.
IGT beat Pragmatic Play by 15.91 percent in a closely-fought fight between the two Canadian providers.
Evolution and Light & Wonder, who usually occupy the second and third positions in US charts, occupied third and fourth places, achieving respectively 13.5 and 11,21 percent.
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