By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Social casino is still a big category in mobile gaming in the West, with companies such as Playtika, Huuuge, Moon Active, Product Madness, Big Fish Games, Double Down, Playstudios and others dominating this multi-billion dollar industry globally. However, social casino apps play only a minor role...
Japan’s PC gaming industry continues to grow. Just before Tokyo Game Show 2024 started last week, Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) shared data showing how rapidly the sector in this country has been expanding. According to CESA, Japan’s PC gaming market...
Generally speaking, Japan has always been a tough nut to crack for Western mobile game developers: In my experience of over 15 years working in this business, only China is more difficult to enter. But there is also a handful of European and American companies that are very successful in this...
Japan is home to the most publicly traded mobile gaming studios in the world: around 40-50 such companies exist in this country at the moment. The vast majority of these developers got listed after GREE (3632) and DeNA (2432) pioneered the mobile social gaming wave around 2007. Today, a new company...
Fate Grand Order (FGO), the mobile RPG that Bloomberg once compared with Pokemon Go, continues to print money for Sony subsidiary Aniplex. According to a new release in the Japanese government’s Official Gazette, the company made US$1.8 billion in revenue in the fiscal year that ended on March 31...
According to a release in the Japanese government’s Official Gazette, The Pokemon Company saw net profit reach US$80.8 million in its 20th fiscal year – which ended on February 28, 2018. While this is a handsome number, it’s also a big drop when compared to the previous fiscal...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry