By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
A lot has been written and said about how hit-driven the mobile game business has become over the last few years, but if the industry needed another bit of evidence, here it is: the market cap of Mixi (2121), Japan’s once biggest social network, has eclipsed that of Mobage operator DeNA...
Tokyo-based MM Research Institute released an overview on the Japanese market for tablets yesterday. According to the report, a total of 7.48 million units were shipped domestically in fiscal 2013 (April 2013-March 2014), which is up 30.5% year-on-year. This number is slightly above the projection...
Right after announcing a new studio, GREE (3632) proper announced a new title for the Japanese market today, “Lost Land Tactics”. In the strategy sim, players join guilds and battle each other in quests and s0-called “raid battles”. GREE says that the main selling point of...
Candy Crush maker King has been testing the waters for a while but now decided it is worth entering Japan’s mobile gaming market with an own office. The company has set up “King Japan” in Tokyo to take care of the local user base. It’s the 10th King office, next to presences...
GREE (3632) yesterday announced the launch of a new studio called “Wright Flyer Studios”, a separate company that was incorporated in Tokyo in February . (Wright Flyer is the name of the world’s first powered aircraft.) The studio is headed by GREE executive Eiji Araki, a member...
CyberZ, a subsidiary of Toky0-based Internet conglomerate CyberAgent (4751), released a report on the size of the Japanese market for smartphone games today. According to the report, the domestic market was worth 546.8 billion yen (US$5.4 billion) in 2013, up from roughly US$3 billion in 2012...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry