By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Apart from Foursquare, Twitter, and Skype, Sony is planning to integrate another online service for buyers of their upcoming next-generation handheld gaming system, the Playstation Vita: Nico Nico Douga. Sony and Dwango apparently inked a deal under which Nico Nico Douga will be one of the pre...
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Japan’s web, mobile, and social gaming industries during an event in Tokyo (on search engines, e-commerce, social networks, mobile web usage and the basic structure of the social gaming industry in this country, to be more exact). Companies and...
CyberAgent announced yet another app for the iPhone. This time, it’s ME_HER [iTunes, Japanese only], a “fashion snap” app that lets users view pictures of fashion (and other) items that were taken by female stars in the Ameba network. CyberAgent says the free is especially geared...
Here’s a quick run-down on CyberAgent-related news I wasn’t able to cover in the last 2 weeks (listed chronologically): July 25, 2011: CyberAgent Ventures opens office in Taipei to serve the Taiwanese market (more info in English here) July 28, 2011: CyberAgent releases financial report...
I spent the last 14 days in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and during that time, these major Japanese social networking/social gaming companies published financial reports (links to all PDFs in English):
CyberAgent: 3Q FY2011
Mixi: 1Q, FY2011
GREE: 4Q, FY2011
DeNA: 1Q, FY2011
So far, Japan’s biggest social network Mixi was OK with users showing handles instead of real names on the site- and the vast majority of users has been using nick names, indeed (privacy on Japan’s web is a sensitive topic). Mixi hasn’t changed this policy, but a few days ago...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry