Nested Bonuses and Persistence Trends in Slot Games

Uh, what trends are you seeing right now in the games or had there been any, like, I guess I should ask, had there been any dark horses this year where you're like, that came out of nowhere? Yeah, I, I wouldn't say it was necessarily a dark horse, but you know, obviously we've been dealing with a lot of the triple pot stuff and perceived persistence, I think over the past couple of years. And then I think the one that's sort of sticking out now is, um, sort of these nested bonuses. we can call them like a nested hold and spin or a hold and spin within a hold and spin um a nested wheel i was looking at this game today um from IGT and it's it's performing real out the gate um this Enchanted Unicorn Returns um that's a great name is that the name yeah yeah so it's actually it's actually based off the legacy game and then they added the returns but now they modernized it and so you have a hold and spin now and then within the hold and spin you have like a nested pick bonus which augments the whole the hold and spin so i think we're seeing these you know obviously we had the triple pots and that's where all the pots interact with each other and now we're kind of doing these nested ones so more vertically instead of horizontally so you can sort of like infinitely combine these different features and i think we're only scratching the surface there aside from that i mean like the perceived persistence stuff and and the triple pots are still strong as ever um those don't walk on a floor today and i feel that's like half of what you'll see yeah um but it has been interesting to watch sort of the the journey there with perceived persistence yeah it is i mean it's everywhere do you see somebody was like i think almost a year ago they came on and they said if you watch the true persistence games they'll like go to the top of the players charts and then they'll inevitably fall off yeah are you is that true oh yeah totally um and this is true persistence and the difference yes for sure really quickly can you explain the difference for the listener who might not know yeah so true persistence means i mean at its core it's the return to players different on each spin um so with perceived persistence the the volume the volume of the pot or the size of the pot is unrelated to the RTP of your next spin so your likelihood of hitting a bonus is exactly the same it doesn't matter um basically the the graphics on the screen don't matter yeah exactly yeah it looks like it's gonna burst or the pots the pots yeah but it doesn't it doesn't matter it doesn't like connect to the right it's almost akin to like walking up to like a roulette table and it has like the last the records of the spins and it's like red red red red red that'd be it doesn't mean the next one's gonna be black so like kind of like you know similarly to the pot filler like just because it's huge and it hasn't hit in a long time doesn't mean you're gonna hit it on the next spin whereas with true persistence there's you it's usually aided by like some sort of like figure like a number or something like that's usually a tell sometimes although now suppliers are starting to to hide some of these things but if you see a number on it that's typically a tell um a number where so like you'll see a pot and it'll have like a six on it or something okay so like some sort of visual counter or yeah some it's usually sort of some sort of physical counter like that you'll see something like that like Buffalo Link you'll see um in the screen like a like a counter so you'll see things like that and that's usually a tell whether it's true or perceived, although now we're seeing some innovations where the lines are getting a little bit blurred.