By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based Colopl (3668) may be a nobody outside Japan, but over here, the company has evolved into a US$2.4 billion mobile gaming powerhouse after going IPO in December 2012. US$2.4 billion in market cap is a not only a very handsome number for an almost entirely domestic company: it also means...
Tokyo-based mobile game provider Colopl has racked up a staggering 20 million registered users across its portfolio. It took the company roughly 16 months to reach this milestone (the first title was released in September 2011): 10 months to get to the first 10 million users, and another 6 months...
Tokyo-based mobile game maker Colopl got listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday and saw its share price soar 88% from 3,000 to 5,650 yen on the first day (ticker: 3668). The listing was announced last month. And it is a pretty big one: Colopl is boasting a 40 billion yen (US$480 million)...
Tokyo-based social game maker enish got listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Mothers section for startups today (ticker: 3667), as announced last month. The stock price went up from 800 Yen to 1,360 Yen, helping the company to reach a 3.3 billion yen (US$40 million) market cap. In other...
Just a few days after social gaming company enish, Tokyo-based Colopl has filed with the Tokyo Stock Exchange to go public at the Mothers section for startups. Colopl will get listed on December 13 (ticker: 3668), two days after enish. Colopl is actually a very interesting developer. The company is...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry