By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Nice win for GREE today: the company announced that it has teamed up with Capcom in a pretty big deal under which the Osaka-based video game company will release a total six social games on the GREE platform by the end of the year. The six titles are: Everybody’s Capcom All Stars (release on...
In a new interview with Pocketgamer.biz, GREE International CEO (and GREE proper’s CFO) Naoki Aoyagi gave out the goal to generate 10% of all of his company’s sales outside Japan next year. Here is my recent analysis of GREE’s financial performance in the US so far. The 10% goal...
Capcom released their financial report for Q1 FY2012 (April to June 2012) today, and things are looking pretty good. All key numbers increased sharply, i.e. the operating profit (up 240% to 2.6 billion yen/US$33.3 billion) or net income, which is about four times higher at now US$12.6 million...
Capcom issued their financial report for fiscal 2011 yesterday, and the company is making it clear it sees its future in two areas: online and social games. I have heard that before. All IR material can be downloaded in English from here. Things aren’t looking too rosy overall: Here are the...
“Minna to Monhan Card Master”, a social card battle game based on the popular Monster Hunter action RPG series, has racked up 500,000 users on Mobage. The Capcom title needed just four days (between February 21 – it’s launch day – and February 25) to reach the milestone. Co...
Capcom released their financial results for the first nine months of the current fiscal year, and in a nutshell, things aren’t looking too good. For the nine-month period through December 31, sales dropped by a whopping 29% to US$657 million year-on-year. In the same time frame, operating...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry