Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from Joseph Greff - J.PMorgan.
Joseph Greff - J.PMorgan
My first question centers on the backlog, the current open orders for more than 12,600 gaming machines and conversion kits Can you break that out a little bit on how much of that is the Bluebird II cabinet and how much of that is this multigame transmissive reel for sale product?
Brian RGamache
We don’t break out each segment but I would tell you that 20% of the backlog is Bluebird II and again incumbent in that is the transmissive products.
Joseph Greff - J.PMorgan
I think Brian you just said in your closing comments that for fiscal ’09 the new unit shipments are still in that range of 29,200 to 30,000 is that correct.
Brian RGamache
That’s the guidance that we gave, and we’re sticking with it Correct Just to make sure you heard the earlier comments, 60% of our games are either in backlog or have been delivered in Q1 So this is the best visibility we’ve had in my 8.5 years with the company.
Joseph Greff - J.PMorgan
If you were to look at the North America number of new units related to replacement and then expanded or new casinos, how much has that gone down and how much would you say your market share; I’m assuming that’s gone down just given the macro How much have you assumed in terms of market share increases based on the great visibility within your backlog?
Brian RGamache
We believe that our market share currently; we’re the first ones to report so we really can’t validate that till our competitors report But we think our shipped share currently is in the 22% to 24% range and again we’ll validate that in a few weeks after our competitors have reported Again I think it’s probably split evenly between our new unit shipments and our replacement teams It’s pretty consistent throughout.
Operator
Our next question comes from Celeste Brown - Morgan Stanley.
Celeste Brown - Morgan Stanley
Can you walk us through what has gotten better and what has gotten worse since your last outlook or your last guidance? You expressed in your last call rather vehemently that you had built in quite a large cushion into your guidance Do we still have a sizable cushion or are we closing in on that.
Brian RGamache
Let me answer the first question I think that our guidance really that we gave on August 5 said that we had factored into our guidance what was the 10% to 12% revenue growth, and the economy was stagnant and it was certainly not going to be any upticks in the economy.
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