By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I said it before, and I say it again: god Mammon sure loves Japan’s social gaming business. And I think this quick update to highlight a comparison (August 18, 2012) between Zynga and their Japanese competitors is well justified: Zynga’s market cap at the NASDAQ currently stands at $2.3...
Even though Gameloft operates its own social network for their games (Gameloft Live), the company has partnered up with GREE to release a few titles in which the social element is especially strong. The first such title, Gang Domination, was released a few weeks ago on GREE’s global platform...
One of GREE‘s biggest Japanese brands, Monpla (short for Monster Planet), is getting a global treatment. The company has released Monpla Splash for iOS yesterday, a new social RPG (in English) that’s based on the original game GREE released in Japan in summer 2010. GREE explains: MONPLA...
Dragon Collection, a social card battle game on GREE, is nothing but a phenomenon. Not only has maker Konami paved the way for an the biggest genre in Japan’s social gaming market right now, the title also boasts a very long life cycle (for example, it’s still No. 2 in GREE’s...
GREE caused a bit of a splash in American media today when the company, for the first time, broke out sales numbers for markets outside Japan (essentially the US). The company says that in the first quarter of this year (January-March) sales in the US reached $12.15 million. In Q2, sales increased...
It took them a while, but Mobage operator DeNA has passed GREE in terms of quarterly sales again. Both companies have just released their financial reports for the April-June quarter: while GREE hit 40 billion yen (US$510 million) in sales in that time frame, DeNA was able to pull in 47.6 billion...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry