So 2009 marked the fact that so many casinos opened up all over the world. Macau had it's fair share along with many states in the USA granting new licenses to states to operate new casinos. This has brought along a host of interesting new scenarios for casinos that have been open for a long time and ones that are slow to adopt change.
Atlantic City has received plenty of media attention on how it is continually heading south with the increased competition. Has it lost it's way on how to make money? Atlantic City was once the boom of it all, how did it forget how to attract visitors to the neon lights? Same with Vegas, once recession and suddenly people start crying? Sure it is the workers out there who suffer, they have to be laid off as demand slows, but all needs to be sweated out since recessions occur like booms.
There are now only more online casinos opening and land based casinos getting more and more creative on how they allow patrons to gamble and manage their brand names. This just all means that the weaker players will have to find new ways to compete or perish to the more innovative players.
Macau stealing Vegas' thunder? That would never have happened a few years ago so they can just ramp it up again by building new roller coasters, new shows and even zanier neon lights.