By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
A question I often get asked in the scope of my consulting work is: how many users do you think GREE can get at the maximum? Today, during a social media event in Tokyo, GREE executive Naoya Ito (background) says GREE is aiming for 100 million members. Ito went on saying that this Zynga-esque...
Japanese Groupon clone Luxa has today issued a report that sheds a light on the combined revenue Groupon and its 190 clones generate in Japan. Luxa began tracking data in April 2010 (when Piku, Japan’s first Groupon clone, launched). According to this data, sales grew steadily after April...
Rakuten announced they inked a deal with Disney Japan to set up a special online shop on Rakuten Ichiba. The so-called Disney Store will offer Disney-related goods to the site’s 70 million members. For Disney, Japan is one of the world’s biggest markets. The company operates 47 brick...
How many smartphones are there in Japan, who is offering them and what are the specs? The following site provides a good, up-to-date overview of the smartphone situation in this country. The site shows that Android is rapidly popularity in Japan: Link (Japanese only) Link (same site, under Google...
You want to track Japanese Internet Stocks in English, and Rakuten, DeNA (Mobage), GREE, Mixi, Kakaku, Yahoo Japan, Digital Garage, Dwango are among the listed web companies you follow? Then you should check out these sites (both are available in English, next to Japanese): Netindex Japan...
DeNA today announced “All Night Nippon”, a social game on Mobage (their new brand name) that allows users to run their own TV show. As with all Mobage games, the title is free to play and will be monetized via virtual item sales.
Here are some screenshots:
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry