By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
There can be no doubt Japanese companies lead the world when it comes to understanding that free-to-play mobile games are actually services that never end. As such, live operations are viewed as a key activity in the mobile game industry’s value chain and taken very seriously over here. For...
Today, Japan’s biggest video game magazine Famitsu published (JP) new stats showing that the country’s market for console gaming continues to shrink. According to Famitsu, the combined sales in Japan for video game hard- and software amounted to US$2.59 billion between December 28, 2015...
At a press conference in Tokyo today, Sony (6758) detailed its next attempt to move into the mobile gaming business. The big idea this time is to turn existing PlayStation IP into smartphone games, via a wholly owned subsidiary called Forwardworks. In my view, the 10 titles shown today can be...
Facebook has launched Instant Games yesterday, a new HTML5 cross-platform that could lead to a new era in gaming. In a nutshell, Facebook allows developers to deploy games that run completely within the Facebook and Messenger clients (both on mobile and desktop). One tap of the user is enough, and...
As everybody reading this text will know by now, Nintendo (7974) announced Super Mario Run for iOS earlier this week. Co-developed with partner DeNA (2432), the app is supposed to go live this December. Estimate Of Future Number Of Total Super Mario Run Downloads As Nintendo’s first actual...
In the last days, two domestic organizations have released updates on the size of the Japanese market for mobile games in 2015. I am aware that different data sources (especially across countries) rely on different methodologies, but I have not seen any numbers that are bigger than these elsewhere...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry