By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The Monster Strike hype in Japan has no limit, it seems. The action RPG has made Mixi (2121) a US$4 billion company at the Tokyo stock exchange today (US$4.2 billion at 2.30pm Japanese time, to be more exact) – after the share price has risen and risen over the last few days and weeks. So...
Colopl (3668), which I last year called the biggest Japanese mobile game maker you never heard of, has released its next big game on iOS today. The company, which is currently boasting a US$4 billion market cap, has very high hopes in the title. Colopl has also produced mega hit Quiz RPG...
Mixi (2121) today announced that its action RPG “Monster Strike” has passed the 10 million downloads mark on iOS and Android on July 19. The number includes users from Japan and Taiwan: in February, Mixi closed a deal with Tencent to distribute Monster Strike in China, but the game is...
Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons hit 29 million downloads, maker GungHo Online Entertainment (3765) announced today. The number was reached inside Japan only (on iOS, Android, and Amazon Kindle). What’s interesting to note here is that the growth rate, the time it takes Puzzle...
If you have accessed this site over the past few weeks, you may have noticed this banner popping up quite prominently: The banner links to the site of my consultancy, “Kantan Games, Inc.” (in English and Japanese). “Kantan” is Japanese for “simple” or...
Major Tokyo-based magazine publisher Enterbrain has released an update on the status quo of the Japanese console game industry. According to the owner of Japan’s biggest video game magazine Famitsu, the domestic market in the first half of 2014 reached US$1.685 billion in size, having moved...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry