Category: games
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Assessing Japan’s Gaming Sector (CNBC TV interview)
More in our J-GAMES report: http://www.eurotechnology.com/store/jgames/ Copyright·©2013 ·Eurotechnology Japan KK·All Rights Reserved·
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Why are keitai so hot in Japan?
Innovations in Japan’s mobile phone sector Why is Japan’s telecommunications sector leading? Seminar announcement The European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS Academy in Tokyo) of the Stockholm School of Economics will hold a seminar in Tokyo-Marunochi on Thursday, February 16, 2006: Topic: “Why are Mobile Phones (Keitai) so hot in Japan? – and How European…
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PSP’s wLAN connection
SONY‘s PSP includes wLAN connectivity – this image shows our company homepage displayed on a PSP’ internet browser SONY’s PSP can be used as a VOIP telephone – and has a variety of other disruptive functionalities… more in our J-Games report. At the moment PSP is being outsold by Nintendo’s DS. Copyright·©2013 ·Eurotechnology Japan KK·All…
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XBOX 360 Japan launch in Tokyo on Dec 10, 2005
Very small impact for XBOX in Japan to date XBOX 360 Japan Launch makes a new attempt for breakthrough in Japan by Gerhard Fasol Microsoft launched XBOX 360 in Tokyo today Dec 10, 2005: The original XBOX made only very small impact in Japan’s console market, which is dominated by SONY’s Playstation series and Nintendo’s…
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XBOX 360 Japan Lounge Tokyo Aoyama
No breakthrough for XBOX in Japan yet XBOX promotion in Tokyo XBox has not yet achieved the breakthrough in Japan’s competitive game markets – and Microsoft is relentlessly working to make XBox a success in Japan. Japan game market report (398 pages, pdf-file): The new “XBox 360 Lounge” in Tokyo/Aoyama Japan game market report (398…
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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…
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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,…
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Ig Nobel Prize for Peace to the inventor of Karaoke
There is a saying the that the Prophet is not recognized within his/her own country – and I think that the inventor of Karaoke, Inoue Daisuke (井上 大佑) is not as famous in his own country as he deserves – but he was now recognized for his outstanding invention by the “Ig Nobel Prize” committee…
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Tokyo Game Show TGS2004 (Sept 24-26, 2004): breakthrough for native mobile games
Mobile phone games at the center of TGS2004 by Gerhard Fasol Docomo at the center of attention with JAVA native mobile games for i-Mode The annual “Tokyo Game Show” sets trends and is a must for game professionals and fans. More than 100 companies exhibit. This years highlight is the SONY “PlayStation Portable” – PSP…