By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
A lot has been written about esports in Japan in recent months, mostly on why competitive gaming isn’t taking off over here, the third biggest market for games in the world. It makes sense, as esports seems to be everywhere nowadays, enjoying coverage by mass media, attention by large brands...
Game industry website GamesIndustry.biz recently asked me for some personal predictions for the gaming business in 2019. Here is an repost from my contribution to their article: Last year I predicted: 2018 will be another successful year for Nintendo: Largely correct with Nintendo’s year-end...
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 (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...
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...
After almost five years, it was about time to change the design of my company’s website (Kantan Games).
Please check here for the new English site or here for the Japanese version.
This blog will soon see an update, too.
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry