By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japanese web company Nifty (3828) plans to capitalize on Japan’s social games market boom. Nifty today said it will help local social game developers to offer their titles outside Japan. Services will include cloud computing and support in local payment solutions, translations and advertising...
DeNA today announced a new way to monetize its mobile social gaming platform Mobage-town: monthly subscriptions for virtual items. The aim here is make it easier for Mobage-town users to spend money on virtual items for avatars and inside games: instead of paying per item, DeNA’s new...
It was reported today that DeNA (Mobage-town) plans to launch its social gaming platform in China late February this year. COO Isao Moriyasu said in an interview that Mobage-town in China will begin with 20-30 game development partners. DeNA already has a presence in the Chinese gaming market...
There are many examples, but these came to my mind right now. 1) Twitter: Twitter has been growing at a spectacular pace in 2010 in Japan. They now have well over 10 million users, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the real number would be closer to 15 million (Twitter isn’t providing...
Yahoo Mobage, the PC social games platform run by Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage-town), is continuing to grow nicely. Today it was reported that Yahoo Mobage now has 2 million users. The first million users were counted after 51 days, while it took Yahoo Mobage to get a second million in 53 days. 68%...
Major Japanese tech blog TechWave is today running a story on how Japan’s social games market has evolved from 2009 to 2010 and how it will grow until 2014. According to Seed Planning, the market research company behind the analysis, Japan’s social game market grew 305% from 2009 to 2010...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry