By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi and Twitter Japan have officially announced that partnership that was leaked to the press a few days ago. The goal is to develop new products and advertising services, with Mixi hinting at a function that may make it possible for their users...
Twitter isn’t as hot in Japan as it was in 2010, but it’s still huge and firmly established itself as one of the top web brands in the country. Reason enough for Mixi, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network to partner up with Twitter next week. Japanese tech news site IT...
There are industry reports from a number of Japan-based investment banks available out there, and everyone sees the market size of the domestic social gaming market differently. For analysts, investors, and everyone else interested in such data, one alternative is the analysis from Enterbrain, a...
How have ARPU and sales of DeNA and GREE changed over the last months? Japanese blog “Shares” has created two handy charts that show how these metrics developed from 2008, and I translated them below. This chart shows the ARPU for DeNA (Mobage) and GREE between 2008 and today. If this...
In their latest financial report, Mixi didn’t only report numbers but also announced a major overhaul of its app platform for November 15. It’s the most radical revamp of that section ever and is likely to benefit social game makers. The basic idea is to split the apps section into two...
Mixi has released the financial report for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 (July to September), and in a nutshell, things aren’t looking too good for Japan’s biggest social network: while sales have slightly (1.8%) risen to US$39.66 million, operating profit fell 16.8% to US$6.54...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry