I was recently interviewed by Joseph Kim (who runs GameMakers and is also the CEO of mobile game studio Lila Games), Brian Peganoff (founder at Timber Advisors) and Matthew Kanterman (Director Of Research at Roundhill Investments) on the Japanese gaming market – with an extra dash of Korean.
Here is the video:
OUTLINE:
0:00 Intro
1:25 Key Asian gaming trends, including crypto
4:45 Serkan’s take on the console wars
8:18 Matthew’s take: Mobile never killed console
9:22 Serkan: Traditional Asian game companies killing it on mobile
10:55 Live services from Asian game companies
14:20 Nintendo
25:28 Will Nintendo ever push mobile?
31:36 Sony
40:30 Mobile for Sony
43:00 Sony first party
48:28 Square Enix
55:51 Nexon
1:03:29 NCSoft
1:12:52 Netmarble
1:19:47 Other remaining Japanese and Korean gaming companies: Watch out for Capcom!
1:26:26 SEGA + Rovio
1:30:42 Leads-based model for Asia to grow Western audience
1:32:00 Chinese invasion of Japanese talent
