I don’t really think that a lot of casinos want to be acquired by Vegas companies…
Also, Party is different, it doesn’t issue licences. It owns all the casinos and the software. Other software companies do not own their casinos, nor can the casinos sell themselves without approval.
Much more complicated.
Also, it remains to be seen how desireable it is to have Vegas companies own the online casinos.
Lots of variables here, but I see one positive, and that is when a Vegas casino owns an online software, they will want to launch it. Now, of course they can just leave things as is and only target non-US countires, but I bet they will be motivated to get the online gambling industry regulated in the US.
The Vegas companies are used to strict regulation and a lot less scared of it…
I think we still need to wait until UIGEA is repealed, and then regulation takes it’s course. After that I think we will see deals between existing softwares and Vegas, as well as some proprietary softwares from Vegas casinos.