By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s most successful platform-free social game Puzzle & Dragons continues to amaze. Maker GungHo announced that their flagship title has reached 2 million downloads – in Japan only, on iOS and Android only (there is no feature phone version), and...
Messenger app sensation KakaoTalk is the clear winner in its home market of Korea (65 million users worldwide) but hasn’t been able to win over users in Japan where LINE is the undisputed king. KakaoTalk has been available in Japanese for quite a while now, but now maker Kakao Corp. is ready...
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has released their ranking of the top 50 high-growth companies in Japan in the TMT sector (Technology, Media & Telecommunications), and the rapid expansion of the country’s social gaming sector is clearly reflected in the list. According to Deloitte’s...
What are the current key trends in the gaming market in Japan and elsewhere? That’s the question I tried to answer in a presentation I gave a few weeks ago. (Note: no one in the audience belonged to the gaming industry.) The slides cover: Structure Of Japan’s Social Gaming Market Market Size 10 Key...
Tokyo-based GungHo, maker of Japan’s most successful platform-free social game Puzzle & Dragons, is ready to invest more in marketing their flagship title. Puzzle & Dragons isn’t using the Mobage or GREE networks but has racked up 1.5 million users so far – in Japan only...
NHN Japan has announced that LINE Birzzle, the first social game released on the LINE platform, reached 10 million downloads worldwide. Developed by Korea-based Enfeel, the title hit iOS and Android on July 4 this year and managed to rack up 2 million users in 24 hours. LINE Birzzle needed just 97...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry