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The gambling component is also effectively illegal, because you can't win money from the games directly. You can, however, win tokens, which a little shop conv
by resolutebat 3y ago
The gambling component is also effectively illegal, because you can't win money from the games directly. You can, however, win tokens, which a little shop conveniently located right next to the pachinko parlor will buy off you in exchange for cold hard cash.
Like everything else in Japan, though, pachinko is also slowly dying off as the population ages, and the long-planned/long-delayed opening of actual casinos will also cause a big hut.
- lmm 3y ago> pachinko is also slowly dying off as the population ages Huh? Aren't old people the biggest audience for it?
- worrycue 3y agoCurrent old people are the audience I guess. When they die off, the new generation of old people might not be so into it.
- lmm 3y agoI see no grounds to assume that though. Bingo has been a notoriously old-people-thing for several generations at this point.
- lhl 3y agoNo need to make assumptions, the pachinko market has been continuously shrinking for decades: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1171592/japan-market-size-of-pachinko-and-pachislot-market/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1171592/japan-market-siz...