Where do you see Azur Lane? Charts I've seen are placing Genshin at 26-29 and I don't see Azur Lane anywhere above that.
SensorTower seems to say $25m for Genshin, $800k for Azur Lane.
Japan economics thread.
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SensorTower seems to say $25m for Genshin, $800k for Azur Lane.
Isnt the top five from yostar azure lane?
No it's "Blue Archive", a Korean game that is published by Yostar (China) in Japan and by Nexon (Korea) globally.
I wouldn't rely on app revenue rankings as they are extremely volatile and games easily come and go in weeks but yea, more and more Chinese gacha games are appearing at the top 10 more often. In terms of consistency the first Chinese gacha that really made a big splash in JP charts was Azur Lane. The real monster app on that chart is F/GO.
Yes, it's the one that got news coverage as a ped* game.Ah ok, didn't know thanks.
But isn't that the ped* game?
Yea, these gacha games have revenue completely dependent on their banners (available characters of the period) and so are extremely volatile. They also "depreciate" quite quickly so most of their revenue drops significantly the longer they've existed. As you say, F/GO is really the only outlier for existing so long but still maintaining relevance in the chart.
But I also recall that in the past, before Azur Lane broke into the market, that app revenues in Japan were almost exclusively indigenous. We certainly are seeing many more Chinese-developed games breaking into the top of the Japanese revenue rankings and staying there for a good duration. It's both an indication of growing Chinese strength in game development and stagnant of Japanese game companies.
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The article on Japanese 'digital deficit'
How Netflix and Amazon dominate Japanese video streaming market:
The only viable domestic competitor seems to be U-Next, whose market share is about the same as Amazon and half that of Netflix.
China actually exports a lot of TV shows to Japan too, probably for not much money per episode but even really domestically poorly received stuff regularly show up on Japanese streaming services/satellite TV. I guess Japanese service providers are hungry for content, and as Netflix is taking over South Korean content industry they need alternative sources.
*double post*
As Japan's aging founders and ,
"The business model in China has become sophisticated as a result of competition. There are many things to be learned from China, as was the case when Japanese envoys were sent to the country under the Tang Dynasty (618-907)," Luo said.
"The advantage of being a Chinese entrepreneur in Japan is that I can make thorough use of resources available in China," Lou said.
This is good, as all these Japanese businesses will be integrated with solely Chinese supply chains in mind.
Is there a surge in Okinawa because Covid is coming in through the U.S. military bases?
The Mainichi
This is retarded and self-inflicted. The Japanese consume a lot of their own media content. There is little reason to be dependent on these US companies to act as intermediaries to content. Japan has massive music, manga, anime, TV novel, etc publishers. Which could easily have made the transition into the digital space if they wanted to. It is amazingly stupid how fragmented the Japanese online space for reading manga is for example and how much is still physical media exclusive in some cases.
It is flabbergasting how there is no Japanese equivalent to Tencent really. The closest thing is probably Rakuten and its digital content sites. But it has evolved slowly and still seems to have a convoluted structure and low marketshare even in Japan for whatever stupid reason. They only started selling books online like a decade ago, and they had to buy a foreign book company to even start the business. Like WTF.
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