By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
As everybody reading this text will know by now, Nintendo (7974) announced Super Mario Run for iOS earlier this week. Co-developed with partner DeNA (2432), the app is supposed to go live this December. Estimate Of Future Number Of Total Super Mario Run Downloads As Nintendo’s first actual...
It’s been five days since Nintendo (7974) surprised the world with further details on its smartphone plans. The news made the rounds on October 29 and shares of both Nintendo and partner DeNA (2432) have been falling in recent days, but the dust is slowly beginning to settle now. This is a...
Just like last year for 2023, game industry news site GamesIndustry.biz asked several analysts for predictions about the global gaming market in 2024. Here is a repost from my contribution to their article: “Switch 2” will come and be $400 The time is finally here for a Switch...
Foreign-made video games have always had a very hard time in Japan. For example, a Famitsu statistic summarizing the top 100 best-selling games in Japan between January 2001 and September 2013 (accumulated across these almost 13 years) does not include even a single foreign-made title. Almost 10...
Data provider KADOKAWA Game Linkage just published an overview on the Japanese market for video games and console for 2019. Overall, the entire industry (hardware and software including digital downloads) reached US$4.1 billion in CY 2019. That’s a 0.6% increase year-on-year. What I find...
Japan’s biggest video game magazine Famitsu just released an update on the size and growth of Japan’s console market. According to Famitsu, the domestic market for video game hardware and software combined in the first half of 2017 reached US$1.35 billion (using today’s currency rates)...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry