By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE, which hasn’t seen a few hits on its platform in quite some time now, can be happy: Metal Gear Solid Social Ops, the first social game in the Metal Gear franchise, seems to be a success. The GREE-exclusive title launched on December 4, was off to a good start, and passed 500,000...
Tokyo-based mobile game maker Colopl got listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday and saw its share price soar 88% from 3,000 to 5,650 yen on the first day (ticker: 3668). The listing was announced last month. And it is a pretty big one: Colopl is boasting a 40 billion yen (US$480 million)...
It took them a bit longer than expected (the plan was to launch last month), but NTT Docomo today launched its social gaming platform dgame. At the start, Japan’s biggest telco (60 million mobile subscriber) is offering a total of 11 games inside dgame, which itself is nested inside...
Nexon, the Korean online gaming powerhouse that’s listed in Tokyo, is aiming to triple sales coming from mobile games next year. According to Japanese business daily The Nikkei, Nexon plans to land at about US$360 million in that segment in 2013. To put this into perspective, the company...
Namco Bandai‘s social gaming business is doing very, very well: the company today announced it counts a total 30 million users across their social games offered on the Japanese market. There are various reasons for this success: Namco Bandai has partnerships with Mobage and GREE, usually uses...
Tokyo-based social game maker enish got listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Mothers section for startups today (ticker: 3667), as announced last month. The stock price went up from 800 Yen to 1,360 Yen, helping the company to reach a 3.3 billion yen (US$40 million) market cap. In other...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry