Month: September 2005

  • Tokyo Game Show  TGS2005: Playstation vs Microsoft XBOX vs absent Nintendo DS

    Tokyo Game Show TGS2005: Playstation vs Microsoft XBOX vs absent Nintendo DS

    Nintendo wins on mindshare despite traditional absence from TGS Tokyo Game Show TGS2005: Battle of the console and handheld platforms, while native mobile game applis on the path to disrupt by Gerhard Fasol Here some highlights of this year’s Tokyo Game Show TGS2005: SONY vs Microsoft. At last year’s TGS2004 Microsoft’s XBOX exhibit was pretty…

  • US$ 0.5 Billion/year m-commerce on a single train line?!

    We worked out that about US$ 0.5 Billion/year worth of train tickets for the Tokyo-Osaka Shinkansen train line are sold by mobile phone. Not a bad m-commerce record for a single train line. For details see our Mobile Payment report. The picture shows a Shinkansen train preparing to stop for 2-3 minutes in Nagoya on…

  • Japan game software industry consolidation

    Japan game software industry consolidation

    Japan’s historically grown game companies are global superpowers Shrinking traditional home video game software market and paradigm shift to online games, network games and mobile games forces consolidation by Gerhard Fasol Japan’s mobile game software companies are global superpowers. They are all historically grown and linked to other industry sectors, such as characters, arcade games,…