By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA announced that users of the Yahoo Mobage platform for PC-based social games as well as those playing games on Mobagetown on smartphones can now pay for virtual items using BitCash. BitCash is a popular e-money service in japan that can be used to make payments on the web. Users can transfer...
It’s no secret that Japan is very much an anime nation, which is why the license deal DeNA () inked today with Toei Animation is potentially good news for them (Toei is one of Japan’s biggest anime production studios). Under the deal, DeNA will develop mobile social games based on anime...
PC-based social games are on the rise in Japan: DeNA announced that Yahoo Mobage, the social gaming platform it operates with Yahoo Japan, now has 3 million users. It took Yahoo Mobage 51 days to get to the first million members, 53 more days to add another one million and now another 61 days to...
It has now become easier for players of social games on Mobage for smartphones and Yahoo Mobage to pay for virtual items, at least for Android handset owners subscribed to KDDI au. DeNA announced that these subscribers can purchase “Mobacoins” (DeNA’s virtual currency) via...
What percentage of sales are DeNA (Mobage) and GREE generating through sales coming from their own games as opposed to those from third-party game providers? That’s a question I get asked regularly. Both DeNA and GREE publicly break down how much they are making through ads as opposed to...
GREE offers over 500 social games at the moment, and DeNA‘s Mobage platform even is on the way to 1,000 titles. A reason for the rapid growth both platforms have been seeing in recent months is that more and more “traditional” Japanese video game makers are starting to develop...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry