By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Online fashion mall Zozotown (background) is seeing a rapid growth in traffic, if a new report by Nielsen is to be believed. According to Nielsen Japan [PDF], Zozotown’s PC site saw a total of four million unique users, up from slightly over 2.5 million in November. Nielsen identifies three...
PC-based social games are on the rise in Japan: DeNA announced that Yahoo Mobage, the social gaming platform it operates with Yahoo Japan, now has 3 million users. It took Yahoo Mobage 51 days to get to the first million members, 53 more days to add another one million and now another 61 days to...
Reuters just reported that Yahoo may finally be really willing to transfer its stake (35%) in Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, to SoftBank, Yahoo Japan’s other major shareholder. SoftBank owns more than Yahoo itself (37.36%). Rumors about a possible exit by Yahoo have been...
Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, is partnering up with US-based startup Ooyala to launch a video sharing platform. This won’t be, however, Yahoo Japan’s answer to YouTube (there is no such thing): the site will be rather aimed at businesses. The new platform will make...
Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social games platform run by Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage on mobile phones), has been off to a good start after the launch in the fall of 2010: in January 2011, DeNA reported that Yahoo Mobage crossed the 2 million mark after 104 days. If data coming from Nielsen Japan is...
Yahoo Mobage, Yahoo Japan’s and DeNA’s social game platform on the PC, is getting more and more games. One candidate for a future hit title isn’t a social game but a 3D virtual world called Pico Pico Town. Made by DeNA itself, Pico Pico Town went live today in beta. There are a total of 5...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry