Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from David Katz - Oppenheimer & Co.
David Katz - Oppenheimer & Co.
Firstly, Robert I think in your comments you said that you expect game ops to be higher in the back half of the year. Can you elaborate on that a little bit?
Robert Caller
Well, I’ll jump in and Gavin you and [inaudible] as well. We do at this time see growth in Q3 and then again in Q4 in game ops based on scheduled placements. In addition we have seen an improvement in the [Win Per Day] in January compared to December levels. And based on those factors and our own conscious monitoring of capital to make sure that we don’t have units in very low performing venues, we feel confident that gaming operations should grow during the second half of the year. We’ve got a number of new titles coming out as well over the next three months.
David, I should also add that seasonality for gaming operations tends to be the weakest in the December quarter. David, anything else?
Operator
Your next question comes from Joseph Greff - J.P. Morgan.
Joseph Greff - J.P. Morgan
Dick just relative to the guidance change which is probably not too far off or probably better than where recent expectations are, if I look at that $0.10 coming off the top end and sort of imply a revenue number that’s somewhere between $30, $35 million or so, is that basically on the gaming equipment products sale side or is that – how do you kind of look at that sort of maybe that margin this time around versus three months ago?
Richard Haddrill
Yes. And although we don’t give revenue guidance we are seeing the operators be very precious with their capital here over the last 45, 60 days. And makes us believe that game sales is the area where we’re likely to see the softness that caused us to take $0.10 off the top. That said, we continue to feel good about our new products coming out; about international opportunities; about the other areas of the business; but the game sales is the area where we’re seeing the near term softness.
Joseph Greff - J.P. Morgan
Is there broadly a trend for a lot of the multi-casino operators where they’re saying listen we don’t have the capital to buy but our view is that we’re going to move to more of the participation? Or is that still kind of an anecdotal sort of trend?
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