By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent‘s super-popular virtual world Ameba Pigg continues to grow. The service counted 6 million in January (when the company said it’s making US$7.2 million in sales per month from the service), before reporting 8.5 million domestic users in September. Fast forward to today, and there...
DeNA has announced that Mobage will be pre-installed on Sharp’s next Android cell phone, the so-called AQUOS PHONE THE HYBRID 101SH. The phone is part of mobile carrier SoftBank’s fall and winter line-up this year. As you can see in the picture below, Android 2.3 is baked into a...
Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform on Yahoo Japan, has reached 6 million users. The joint venture was set up by Yahoo Japan and DeNA in October 2010. It took Yahoo Mobage: 51 days to get to the first million members 53 more days to add another one million another 61 days to reach 3...
CyberAgent‘s hit virtual world Ameba Pigg is seeing success outside Japan: according to Gamebusiness.jp, Ameba Pico (Pigg’s name in non-Japanese markets) just hit the 4 million user mark. The game news portal is citing CyberAgent’s official Twitter account. The super-cute virtual...
There are industry reports from a number of Japan-based investment banks available out there, and everyone sees the market size of the domestic social gaming market differently. For analysts, investors, and everyone else interested in such data, one alternative is the analysis from Enterbrain, a...
Big win for GREE today: EA Sports has brought social game FIFA World Class Soccer to GREE on Japanese feature phones and smartphones (pre-registration actually started a while ago). FIFA World Class Soccer has been co-developed with Tokyo-based gumi, one of the biggest third-party social game...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry