By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Mixi, Japan’s biggest social network (still), is getting more serious about social commerce: the company has entered a partnership with Mobage operator DeNA to launch Mixi Mall. The social commerce platform was pre-announced back in January. DeNA is bringing in its experience in running a...
Facebook reached an important milestone: the company’s Tokyo subsidiary today announced that the number of active Japanese users on Facebook users hit 10 million (active=logged in at least once per month). In other words, 10% of Japan’s web population is actively using Facebook. The...
Zynga Japan has been very quiet for a while (the reason being they just weren’t very active or successful in recent months, to say the least), but now the company has rolled out a social RPG with original IP for iOS (Zynga Japan calls it a “Monster Battle RPG”). What’s...
Mixi released their financial report for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 (October to December 2011), and things aren’t looking too good for Japan’s largest social network. Sales, for example, went down 2.7% year-on-year to 3.447 billion yen (US$45 million), while operating profit...
Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi and Mobage operator DeNA have announced an e-commerce partnership. The companies are in the process of setting up an online shopping service for Mixi members that’s scheduled to start in late March this year. The idea here is to combine...
GREE, DeNA‘s Mobage, Yahoo Mobage, Mixi, Hangame: there’s certainly no shortage of social game platform providers in Japan, and the same is true for social game content providers (I am estimating there are around 500 of these active in this country). But who is actually playing these...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry