Mobile gaming: the view from DeNA

Tessa Thorniley

This article summarises the size and state of the global mobile gaming market, with particular focus on the Asian markets of China, Japan and South Korea, as well as North America and Europe.

Mobile gaming: the view from DeNA

Tessa Thorniley

Mobile gaming firms accounted for a much larger proportion of exhibitors at the 2014 Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC), held in Beijing in May, compared to previous years. The sheer number of game developers vying for attention on the sidelines suggests that the market in China has become very crowded.

Among the senior figures attempting to make sense of this fast growing sector at was Isao Moriyasu, the president of DeNA, a mobile services developer and operator based in Tokyo. DeNA has gone through several incarnations before arriving at today's business...

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