By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based market research firm Yano has published a new report on Japan’s smartphone game industry. According to the company, the size of the industry is stagnating from 2014 to 2017 withinthe US$8-8.5 billion band: The numbers include sales generated inside smartphone native apps as well...
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 andtaken veryseriously over here. For...
Today, Japan’s biggest video game magazine Famitsu published(JP) new statsshowing that the country’smarket 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 turnexisting 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 runcompletely 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 iOSearlier this week. Co-developed with partnerDeNA (2432), the app is supposed to go live this December. Estimate Of Future Number Of Total Super Mario Run Downloads AsNintendo’s first actual...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry