By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
As a legacy of the feature phone era (which is not yet over), Japan is the only country in the world in which millions of people play games inside their smartphone browser – mostly on the GREE (3632) and DeNA (2432)-operated Mobage platforms. Devs over here are slowly but surely shifting to...
Last year in September, during the Tokyo Game Show 2012, GREE (3632) took the wraps off “Project Fantasm:A”, a new first-party title with some pretty high-profile names behind it. GREE didn’t talk much about their “AAA” social game since but fast forward to today, and it’s...
Just last week The Nikkei reported about sales and profit sliding significantly for GREE (3632) between April to June (ahead of the company’s official announcement of its financial results for that quarter). Back then, Japan’s biggest business publication reported that – as a...
The Nikkei has just reported online that things are starting to look better overseas for DeNA (2432): according to the Japanese business daily, the Mobage operator has seen sales in the US grow 600% year-on-year to US$90 million in the April-June quarter. Note: this number hasn’t been...
From time to time, Japanese business daily The Nikkei reveals financials before listed companies do in their quarterly reports or other statements. Today, the newspaper says it has learned that GREE (3632) will likely announce that sales and profit went down in the April-June period, both year-on...
This is certainly not good news not only for the company affected but for Japan’s mobile game industry as a whole: the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) suspended trading of shares in Index Corp., a Tokyo-based maker of mobile games, this morning Japanese time. Details are relatively scarce at...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry