By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s biggest social games company DeNA is to generate $1.3 billion in revenue this fiscal year: Japan’s leading social games company, DeNA (listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a $5.4 billion market cap), is running from one record to the other. The company, whose mobile social gaming...
First off, it’s important to understand that currently, social gaming in Japan largely means mobile social gaming. Second, it’s a multi-billion dollar market with mind-boggling profit rates for the biggest players involved. As such, many social gaming startups were created lately. You...
No doubt, CyberAgent’s virtual world Ameba Pigg (Ameba Pico outside Japan) is a hit: the company today announced that Piggu now counts a whopping 6 million members in Japan. CyberAgent also says it pulls in 600 million yen in revenue ($7.2 million) per month from Ameba Piggu – through...
There’s a new tech IPO in Japan: Online timetable service Ekitan (fee-based on mobile phones) will get listed in Tokyo: An online train timetable service that goes IPO? It may sound ludicrous to people living outside Japan, but Tokyo-based Ekitan is doing exactly that. The company will be...
GREE has finally announced it will enter the social gaming market in China. Tencent, the world’s third-largest web company by market cap, will be GREE’s partner. That’s a spectacular move and sign that it becomes harder and harder for GREE to expand the mobile social games...
Big news from Japan’s social gaming world today: Mixi just announced Grenge, a joint venture to be launched with CyberAgent (Ameba), to produce social games: Japan’s social apps boom isn’t ending: Today, two of the country’s biggest web companies, namely Mixi and CyberAgent, announced they...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry