By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I have the feeling GREE plans to cover the entire world with offices: the company just announced it will open an office in Dubai. The presence in the Arab Emirates will stand in line with GREE offices in Beijing, California, Seoul, Singapore, London, Amsterdam and Sao Paolo. I don’t get it...
DeNA has announced an interesting move to enter Korea today: Mobage Korea will be established in the gaming- and mobile-crazy nation via Daum, one of the country’s biggest web portals (yes, portals are still popular in Asia). The deal was done through DeNA Seoul, a subsidiary DeNA set up in...
How have ARPU and sales of DeNA and GREE changed over the last months? Japanese blog “Shares” has created two handy charts that show how these metrics developed from 2008, and I translated them below. This chart shows the ARPU for DeNA (Mobage) and GREE between 2008 and today. If this...
Recently IPO’d social gaming company Klab announced that Captain Tsubasa, a soccer-themed social game, has hit the 1.5 million user mark. The title is part of a bigger trend in Japan, namely using famous anime and manga brands as a thematic and graphic background for social games. In the case...
Capcom isn’t the only Japanese video game maker seeing growth in its social games segment: Konami has posted the results for the first half of their current fiscal year (2012), and this is how things look for Konami as a whole: Sales for social games (SNS games) jumped from 65 to US$216...
Video game maker Capcom has posted the financial results for the second half of this fiscal year (March to September), and the company focuses heavily on its social gaming segment. Things don’t look too well for Capcom as a whole, as can be seen here: But the company also said that: downloads...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry