By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
It was reported today that DeNA (Mobage-town) plans to launch its social gaming platform in China late February this year. COO Isao Moriyasu said in an interview that Mobage-town in China will begin with 20-30 game development partners. DeNA already has a presence in the Chinese gaming market...
There are many examples, but these came to my mind right now. 1) Twitter: Twitter has been growing at a spectacular pace in 2010 in Japan. They now have well over 10 million users, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the real number would be closer to 15 million (Twitter isn’t providing...
Major Japanese tech blog TechWave is today running a story on how Japan’s social games market has evolved from 2009 to 2010 and how it will grow until 2014. According to Seed Planning, the market research company behind the analysis, Japan’s social game market grew 305% from 2009 to 2010...
Facebook Japan has sure observed this: Japan’s biggest social network Mixi today announced it has removed the “Search Friends Via Email“ function – after one day. The reason: too many users protested against the new feature because of privacy and security reasons. Mixi now says...
How are Mixi, Facebook Japan, GREE and DeNA (Mobage-town) doing at the moment? Here’s an interesting study released by MMD Research from Tokyo on Japan’s social games market. This graph shows how social networks are used in Japan (green: brand awareness, purple: actual users) This graph...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry