By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japanese newspaper Sankei is reporting trouble for GREE: the “Kansai Consumers Support Organization”, an Osaka-based NPO, has asked GREE stop using the words “free of charge” in commercials, as the organization thinks this claim violates the Japanese truth-in-advertising law. In fact...
Nowadays, it is quite hard to get a cell phone in Japan without a TV tuner built in. The first phones able to make use of the Japan-only “1seg”-system (broadcasting of digital audio and video signals) came out as early as 2005 (!). Yesterday, Sharp -the king of the ring concerning TV...
Colopl (3668) had a good day yesterday. The company first said that its flagship game “Quiz RPG: World Of Mystic Wiz” racked up 29 million downloads. This number puts the app in the same ball park as Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons from GungHo Online Entertainment (3765). Puzzle...
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...
Tokyo-based mobile gaming behemoth Colopl (3668) today announced its flagship app “Quiz RPG: World Of Mystic Wiz” racked up 26 million downloads within Japan. The new milestone was reached on May 31. Quiz RPG stood at 17 million users at the beginning of this year. It seems to be just a matter of...
Mixi (2121), Japan’s once largest social network , is back from the dead. In September 2006, Mixi was the first s0-called Web 2.0 startup ever to go IPO and managed to maintain its status as a large-cap company for years until it stopped innovating and was hit by a flood of competitors:...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry