By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Hot on the heels of the Kaixin001 deal that was inked at the end of December, DeNA has announced they teamed up with a second Chinese partner, online game provider NetDragon. The goal is to jointly develop and offer mobile social games on the Chinese market. The two companies will set up a joint...
GREE and DeNA are still growing, and with them does Japan’s social gaming industry as a whole: JP Morgan thinks so, as does Morgan Stanley, and now Yano updated their projections for the market. (Note: there are more Japanese sources with more stats, but I am not able to cover them all on...
DeNA partner Namco Bandai launched One Piece Grand Collection, a social game based on the super-popular manga and anime, on Mobage. The company is pitching the title as a social figure collection game, which features various characters from One Piece as virtual figures (see below). Not too...
How does Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley think about the future of Japan’s social gaming industry? I posted some data from JP Morgan back in June, and here’s some recent projections and interesting industry stats from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley. First, some estimates on the size of the...
Japanese blogger and Google employee Fumi Yamazaki has written a piece on social games in Japan today, and it’s surely worth a read. The most interesting bit of information is the following graphic that highlights the fundamental differences between the business models of Japan’s social...
DeNA was able to report a nice win when they got Square Enix to release the first social game version of Final Fantasy on Mobage for feature phones earlier this month. At that point, DeNA said a smartphone version is under development, which usually means it will take weeks or months to come out...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry