By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based (and listed) Vector has simultaneously released a new social game on three platforms today: on Mixi for the PC, Japanese feature phones (Mixi Mobile) and smartphones (Mixi Touch). In Oshaberi Cafe, the player takes on the role of a “daughter of a high-class family” who has...
Mixi released the earnings result for the full fiscal year 2010 on its website. According to the report, Mixi now has 23.37 million users, saw sales growing 24.1% year-year-on-year, and operating income growing 22.5%.
The entire report can be downloaded in English from here.
How has the stock of Japan’s major social networking companies, Mixi, GREE, DeNA and CyberAgent, been doing in the past 5 years when compared to the development of the Nikkei? In a nutshell, investors seem to really love the potential social games offer. Here’s the chart for Mixi (IPO...
Mixi today announced it has redesigned Mixi Touch, its mobile site optimized for touch-control smartphones. This isn’t groundbreaking news, but fairly important for Mixi, whose smartphone offering has been growing quickly in recent months. The main change can be seen on the splash page, from...
It’s a hit social game on GREE, and now CyberAgent has announced that COORDE MANIA+ has been ported over to Mixi. In the game, players take on the role of a “fashion coordinator” (essentially a stylist) and dress up avatars with virtual items and accessories (see screenshots...
CyberAgent‘s gaming subsidiary CyberX today announced that one of its hit social games on Mixi, Hoshizora Bar Town (Starry Sky Bar Town), has made its way to GREE for Japanese feature phones. As the name suggests, Hoshizora Bar Town is a “bar management simulation”: players set up...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry