By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Puzzle & Dragons, developed by Tokyo-based GungHo, is holding its No. 1 position among the top grossing apps in the Japanese App Store. After a short drop a few days back, the social game is back on the spot it has now been occupying for the last 8 weeks. Puzzle & Dragons is a social game...
FIFA World Class Soccer, the social card game launched by Electronic Arts and Tokyo-based gumi in mid-November last year, finally hit 2 million users on GREE. The title just 25 days to reach 1 million users and another 123 days or so to rack up the next million. To celebrate the milestone, EA/gumi...
Social games in Japan are usually being played on mobile devices, on Mobage, GREE, Mixi, or Hangame. The mobile web has “historically” been larger than the fixed web, which is why PC-based social gaming platforms don’t play a big role over here. Japanese users usually visit Yahoo...
It’s a mini trend: social games on smartphones that are not embedded in Mobage or GREE – but do pretty well anyway. Following Puzzle & Dragons from GungHo, it’s Square Enix newest title that sees success with this strategy. “Diffusion Million Arthur”, a great...
Bandai Namco’s excellent, Gundam-based Sci-Fi social game Gundam Masters reached the two million user milestone on GREE. The title was released on September 1 last year and racked up the first million users in about 4 weeks. In other words, growth slowed down significantly, but Namco Bandai...
Growth clearly slowed down for Dragon Collection, the biggest third-party game on GREE, in recent months, but it now has reached 6 million users. Maker Konami announced the milestone inside its most successful social game yesterday (see below). Dragon Collection hit 5 million users on GREE in...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry