Japan mobile game industries

Flappy bird Angry Birds ultimate Japan game disruption: flappy bird flaps to the top

Flappy bird Angry Birds ultimate disruption: flappy bird effortlessly flaps to to the top of ranks, while Angry Birds are watching angrily from the sidelines

Disruption of Japan’s games sector: in a previous blog post we showed that just three newcomers (Gree + DeNA + Gungho) produce more profits than the top 9 traditional game companies combined.

Lets look at some more disruption from the perspective of Japan’s iPhone App store. Lets look at Flappy Bird vs Angry Birds…

Flappy bird Angry Birds ultimate disruption: iOS Japan AppStore “free” games ranking

February 3, 2014, in the “free” ranking in the games section of the iPhone AppStore, we find LINE dominating.

And newcomer Flappy Bird has overtaken Angry Birds by a long margin. Angry Birds Go! appears on rank No. 97 – which actually in Japan is not that bad, given the huge revenues in Japan – as App Annie has shown, Japan’s the world’s biggest grossing apps market both for iOS and Android – so No. 97 in the world’s biggest App market is not that bad.

In a subsequent article we analyze the top grossing 25 apps in the iOS AppStore.

  • No. 1 LINE: Disney tsumutsumu
  • No. 6: LINE SONIC DASH S
  • No. 9: LINE Go!GO!GO!
  • No. 10: LINE PARTY Run
  • No. 17: Puzzle & Dragon by GungHo
  • No. 18: Flappy Bird
  • No. 23: LINE Pokopang
  • No. 30: LINE Dozer
  • No. 97: Angry Birds Go!

iPhone AppStore “Top Grossing” games ranking

February 3, 2014:

  • No. 1 Puzzle & Dragons by GungHo
  • No. 2 Quiz RPG Witch and black cat quiz (by Colopl)
  • No. 3 Dragon Quest Monsters Superlight (by Square Enix)
  • No. 4 Monster strike (by Mixi)
  • No. 5 LINE Pokopang (by Naver Japan)
  • No. 6 Pro yakiyu PRIDE (by Colopl Inc)
  • No. 7 Tsuri Suta (by GREE)
  • No. 8 Sengoku Enbu (by Sumzap Inc)
  • No. 9 Puyo puyo!! Quest (by Sega Corporation)
  • No. 10 Gunzei RPG aoi no sangokushi (by Colopl)

See our following blog for an analysis of the ranking of “top grossing” games in the Japan iOS AppStore.

Learn more about Japan’s games industries

Japan game market report (398 pages, pdf-file)

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