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  • Japan apps: which are the top grossing apps in Japan’s iPhone app store?

    Japan apps: which are the top grossing apps in Japan’s iPhone app store?

    Top grossing app ranking (Feb. 10, 2015)

    by Gerhard Fasol

    AppAnnie showed that in terms of combined iOS AppStore + Google Play revenues, Japan is No. 1 globally, spending more than the USA. Therefore Japan is naturally the No. 1 target globally for many mobile game companies, and quite a few of the top grossing apps in Japan are of foreign origin – can you guess which?!

    iOS AppStore-Japan “Top Grossing” ranking of February 10, 2015:

    Note that the iOS ranking shown here is very similar to the Android / Google Play top grossing ranking.

    • No. 1 Monster strike (by Mixi) from rank 2 on July 13, 2014
    • No. 2 Puzzle & Dragons by GungHo (from rank 1 on July 13, 2014)
    • No. 3 白猫プロジェクト (= white cat project) (by Colopl Inc.)
    • No. 4 Dragon Quest Monsters Superlight (by Square Enix) (from Rank 12 on July 13, 2014)
    • No. 5 LINE Disney tsumu tsumu (by LINE Corporation) (ツムツム = Tsum Tsum) (from Rank 3 on July 13, 2014)
    • No. 6 Final Fantasy Record Keeper (by DeNA Ltd)
    • No. 7 LINE (by LINE Corporation)
    • No. 8 Love life! School Idol Festival (by KLab Inc.) (was rank 9 on July 13, 2014)
    • No. 9 LINE PokoPoko (by LINE Corporation)
    • No. 10 Logres of Swords and Sorcery – popular online RPG (by Marvelous Inc.) (was rank 14 on July 13, 2014)
    • No. 11 Clash of Clans (by Supercell) (was rank 5 on July 13, 2014)
    • No. 12 Runaway lives motorcycle Tiger (by Donuts Co Ltd)
    • No. 13 Drift Spirits (by Bandai Namco Games Inc)
    • No. 14 Actual powerful pro-baseball (実況パワフルプロ野球) (by KONAMI)
    • No. 15 Sengoku Enbu – KIZNA – (by Sumzap Inc) (was rank 8 on July 13, 2014)
    • No. 16 Sword Art Online Code Resister (by Bandai Namco Games Inc)
    • No. 17 Chain chronicle – real scenario RPG (ChainChro = チェンクロ) (by SEGA Corporation)
    • No. 18 Schoolgirl strikers (by Square Enix)
    • No. 19 Summons Board (by GungHo Online Entertainment)
    • No. 20 Puyo puyo!! Quest (by Sega Corporation) (was rank 11 on July 13, 2014)
    • No. 21 Granblue Fantasy (by Cygames Inc)
    • No. 22 LINE Manga – daily reload of popular manga free of charge (by LINE Corporation)
    • No. 23 Brave frontier (by Alim Co Ltd) (was rank 4 on July 13, 2014)
    • No. 24 Dragon poker (by Asobism Co Ltd) (was rank 6 on July 13, 2014)
    • No. 25 LINE POP2 (by LINE Corporation)

    Japan’s iconic game companies created many game categories – this tradition carries over to mobile gaming now.

    Japan’s game makers and markets (32nd edition) – disruption by smartphone games

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  • The Opaquenes of Japan’s social network systems (SNS)

    Opaqueness of Japan’s SNS was a point of discussion at the Next Context Conference. When you use Japan’s social network systems, instead of portrait photographs and real names in Western SNS, in Japan you’ll find that most people use phantasy names and pictures of churches, cats, airplanes, clowns and cartoons instead of passport photographs. Japanese people prefer to keep there privacy intact in this and several other ways. For example mostly you cannot join Japan’s SNS unless you are invited in by a friend, and you can’t join unless you live in Japan (verified by your Japanese mobile email address).

    Looks like Western SNS will have difficulties to thrive in Japan’s SNS unless they make some adaptations of their Western functionality for Japan – or unless Japanese people change their preferences.

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