The official entrance of SEGA into online casinos and the online gambling industry creates a lot of questions about the future of online gambling.  The implications are likely to be great for gamers.  When it comes to electronic gaming, few companies have more experience or more success than SEGA and the fact that they see enough potential in online casinos to start producing content for the industry is telling.

If SEGA successfully launches games for online casinos, it would be no surprise of other experienced game companies, like Nintendo, started to get involved.  But if all of the serious gaming companies get involved in producing games for online casinos, all of online gaming may be in for a revolution.

Companies like Microgaming and Playtech have consistently pushed the envelope for online casino games.  Even CryptoLogic has moved the industry forward in unique ways with their use of pop culture icons.  But none of these companies have the near the same years of experience in developing games of all kinds as a SEGA or Nintendo.

It is clear to most tech savvy people that the Internet is the future of almost all forms of entertainment.  But gaming on the Internet, whether it be purely free entertainment or gambling at online casinos, has not yet remotely touched the level interactivity as games available on gaming consoles.  It may take the involvement of the classic game developers to kick online casinos into that next level. 

Although gaming developers for online casinos have some new and serious competition to worry about, online gambling patrons can look forward to the benefits of new stiff competition.