Japan is home to the most publicly traded mobile gaming studios in the world: around 40-50 such companies exist in this country at the moment. The vast majority of these developers got listed after GREE (3632) and DeNA (2432) pioneered the mobile social gaming wave around 2007. Today, a new company...
Fate Grand Order Publisher Aniplex Reports US$1.8 Billion In Revenue
Fate Grand Order (FGO), the mobile RPG that Bloomberg once compared with Pokemon Go, continues to print money for Sony subsidiary Aniplex. According to a new release in the Japanese government’s Official Gazette, the company made US$1.8 billion in revenue in the fiscal year that ended on March 31...
Pokemon Company’s Net Profit Drops, Still At US$80.8 Million Last Year
According to a release in the Japanese government’s Official Gazette, The Pokemon Company saw net profit reach US$80.8 million in its 20th fiscal year – which ended on February 28, 2018. While this is a handsome number, it’s also a big drop when compared to the previous fiscal...
The Game Business In 2018 (Prediction)
Game media outlet GamesIndustry.biz recently asked me to share my personal prediction for the gaming business in 2018. Here is an repost from my contribution to their article: I) 2018 will be another successful year for Nintendo I think while 2017 has been called a turnaround year for Nintendo...
$3.5-9 Million: Mobile Game Development Costs Keep Rising In Japan
It’s not a secret that a lot of the cost blocks across the value chain in mobile gaming have been getting bigger over the last years. This is also true with regards to development. After all, spec bumps in hardware are leading to increased adoption of 3D graphics, games are generally deeper...
Switch Effect: Japan’s Console Market Went Up 14.8% In First 6 Months Of 2017
Japan’s biggest video game magazine Famitsu just released an update on the size and growth of Japan’s console market. According to Famitsu, the domestic market for video game hardware and software combined in the first half of 2017 reached US$1.35 billion (using today’s currency rates)...