By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry

First Half Of Fiscal Year: Konami’s Social Gaming-Related Sales Jump From 65 To US$216 Million [Social Games]

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Capcom isn’t the only Japanese video game maker seeing growth in its social games segment: Konami has posted the results for the first half of their current fiscal year (2012), and this is how things look for Konami as a whole:

Sales for social games (SNS games) jumped from 65 to US$216 Million year-on-year. The amazing bullet point here is that this is almost as much Konami makes with consumer games:

Konami also has been seeing a healthy plus in registered users for their social games (over 11 million users, cross-platform: GREE and Mobage):

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By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry