By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s biggest social games company DeNA is to generate $1.3 billion in revenue this fiscal year: Japan’s leading social games company, DeNA (listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a $5.4 billion market cap), is running from one record to the other. The company, whose mobile social gaming...
First off, it’s important to understand that currently, social gaming in Japan largely means mobile social gaming. Second, it’s a multi-billion dollar market with mind-boggling profit rates for the biggest players involved. As such, many social gaming startups were created lately. You...
No doubt, CyberAgent’s virtual world Ameba Pigg (Ameba Pico outside Japan) is a hit: the company today announced that Piggu now counts a whopping 6 million members in Japan. CyberAgent also says it pulls in 600 million yen in revenue ($7.2 million) per month from Ameba Piggu – through...
GREE has finally announced it will enter the social gaming market in China. Tencent, the world’s third-largest web company by market cap, will be GREE’s partner. That’s a spectacular move and sign that it becomes harder and harder for GREE to expand the mobile social games...
Big news from Japan’s social gaming world today: Mixi just announced Grenge, a joint venture to be launched with CyberAgent (Ameba), to produce social games: Japan’s social apps boom isn’t ending: Today, two of the country’s biggest web companies, namely Mixi and CyberAgent, announced they...
GREE accelerates its smartphone development. The mobile social games company just announced 15 new games by third-party developers have been added to its Android/iPhone-optimized mobile website. Partners include companies like Sega, gumi and Tonchidot (full list in Japanese here). More information...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry