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Italy – Italians place 10m bets a month on Inspired’s Virtual Sports
By Phil - 10 March 2014
Since going live with its Virtual Sports products in Italy at the end of 2013, Inspired Gaming is reporting 10 million bets per month on its Virtual Sports products across retail, online and mobile channels.
Inspired’s Virtual Sports are currently available in 6,000 venues with Italy’s 5 leading concessionaires, but will soon be rolled out to all 10,000 contracted venues – increasing the reach and popularity of the products.
Inspired is getting ready to showcase its exciting range of VLTs, Comma 6a, online and mobile gaming, and Virtual Sports Betting products for the Italian market at Enada Rimini, held March 19 to 21 2014.
In time for the World Cup, Inspired will launch a brand new upgraded version of its world leading Virtual Football product for Italian players in June with enhanced graphics and extra bet markets. Virtual Basketball, launched at ICE 2014, will also be coming soon to Italy. At Enada, Inspired will be showing its full range of 10 premium sports and its live betting system – allowing visitors to place bets to enter a special prize draw.
As one of the top three VLT suppliers, Inspired already has in excess of 7,000 VLTs live on its Open VLT™ platform with Sisal, Betplus and Lottomatica, three of Italy’s largest concessionaires, and is soon to go live with HBG and Cogetech. Open VLT has proven to be the most flexible and powerful platform in Italy, with the largest range of VLT cabinets and over 30 games already certified.
The Inspired stand will also feature seven new Comma 6a games including Merlin, Diamond Goddess, Temple of Treasure and White Knight already very popular games in several gaming markets. The Comma 6a offer includes a mono-game slot produced by Tecnoplay and a multi-game slot cabinet produced by Nazionale Elettronica. All of Inspired’s Comma 6a games are available on 74 per cent payout.
Vitaliano Casalone, President of Inspired Italia, said: “Since Inspired entered the Italian market back in 2010 with our industry-proven VLT products, our presence has grown significantly. We are now the only major independent VLT supplier in Italy and the only major supplier of Virtual Sports products. It’s fantastic to see such a positive player and regulator response to the introduction of Virtual Sports – it’s a fun product that’s bringing more community entertainment to venues in Italy. We look forward to many similar success stories with our Italian customers during 2014 and beyond.”
