By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Gacha, the biggest money-making mechanic in Japan’s social gaming industry, is about to get transformed radically. A sub-form of this electronic draw concept, “kompu gacha” (or “complete gacha”), was regulated by the Japanese government a few weeks ago. The kompu gacha...
I put together the following article for Social Casino Intelligence, the biggest publication covering the global social casino industry. The link to the online version of the original piece is here. The US$5 billion social gaming market in Japan is unique in many ways, but one of the most striking...
GREE didn’t have a good last financial quarter, mainly because of a lack of strong games (that talk about kompu gacha shock after-effects, for example, is total nonsense). As a consequence, even Puzzle & Dragons maker GungHo is now worth more in terms of market cap. But some recent...
It’s a mystery to me why GREE, which has offices around the world and has no problem calling itself global, waited to publish its new financial report in English today – six days after releasing the original on November 14. There must be some “political” or PR/IR reasons for...
It took a while, but the multi-billion dollar Japanese social gaming industry finally has its own association, named JASGA (Japan Social Game Association). JASGA’s establishment has (no doubt) been accelerated by the kompu gacha shock that hit the industry in May, followed by public pressure...
I think that this week is the busiest in Japan’s social gaming industry since May this year (when the kompu gacha shock hit), there is just so much going on. Today’s big news: GREE announced a comprehensive business partnership with Yahoo Japan, the country’s (by far) biggest web...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry