alt Hacker NewsAnd the retro arcades are really bars for their business model. The profit is all in the $9 beers and $16 nachos, not the admission charge or coin drops. The games are just the crowd draw like live music or trivia or whatever.
Redemption games get families loading up $50 per kid at the card machine (and then $50 more after the kids blow it in twenty minutes); retrocades aren't pulling that from anybody.
Im going to bring this back to my cloud computing analogy. I’m trying to figure out the future of the business model wrt GPUs. Its possible that GPUs and machine learning APIs could act as the “crowd draw” meanwhile they make all the profit on overpriced commodity x86 vcpu and storage buckets (the beer and nachos)