By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform on Yahoo Japan, has reached 6 million users. The joint venture was set up by Yahoo Japan and DeNA in October 2010. It took Yahoo Mobage: 51 days to get to the first million members 53 more days to add another one million another 61 days to reach 3...
There are industry reports from a number of Japan-based investment banks available out there, and everyone sees the market size of the domestic social gaming market differently. For analysts, investors, and everyone else interested in such data, one alternative is the analysis from Enterbrain, a...
DeNA is pretty strong in securing anime-based social games for Mobage, and One Piece, announced by Bandai Namco today, might be their biggest game of that kind so far (the One Piece manga and anime are easily among the most valuable IP a company can own in these areas at the moment). The full title...
It’s an old wisdom in the video game industry: platforms go nowhere without so-called “killer” titles. Mobage in English on Android has a few solid titles (that do well), but that killer game is missing. In the US, ngmoco is working on a bunch of new, original and Mobage exclusive...
DeNA has announced an interesting move to enter Korea today: Mobage Korea will be established in the gaming- and mobile-crazy nation via Daum, one of the country’s biggest web portals (yes, portals are still popular in Asia). The deal was done through DeNA Seoul, a subsidiary DeNA set up in...
How have ARPU and sales of DeNA and GREE changed over the last months? Japanese blog “Shares” has created two handy charts that show how these metrics developed from 2008, and I translated them below. This chart shows the ARPU for DeNA (Mobage) and GREE between 2008 and today. If this...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry