hype vs. real deal asia edition. 2 panelists/oracles vishal gondal ceo & founder - indiagames...
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Hype vs. Real DealAsia Edition
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Panelists/Oracles
• Vishal Gondal CEO & Founder - Indiagames
• James GwertzmanGM Asia/Pacific - Popcap Games
• Noritaka KobayashiVP Business Development - GREE
• Josh LarsonPresident - Mochi Media
Moderator:• Stanley Adrianus
Founder & CEO, Gamenauts
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The Future is Mobile
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Mobile Market: $7.5 Billion by 2015
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Effect on other industry sectors
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Effect on other industry sectors
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Disney buying Indiagames.EA buying Popcap.
GREE buying Funzio.Zynga buying 1 GAZILLION developers.
More coming in the future…or just hype?
Game Company Acquisitions
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Android
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Android in Asia
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Hang on a sec…
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Future outlook vs iOS.
$$$ - will it ever match iOS?
Fragmentation – will it get any better?
Better fit for Asian market?(lower cost, penetration, carrier partnerships etc.)
What’s the verdict on Android?
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Gotcha GACHA!Panic in JP Social Games?
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Fallout of Gacha-Gate
What will the real effect be for the social games market in Japan and elsewhere?
More governments stepping in to regulate?
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GREE & DeNA in the West
Will they dominate the Western & other Asian markets?
US acquisitions (ngmoco & Open Feint) – has it been or ?
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Zynga in Asia
What will it take for Zynga to win Asian markets?
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Bonus Question!
Who will win big FIRST globally?
ZYNGA vs GREE vs DeNA
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Trading Card Games
#1 genre in Japanese mobile games.
Doliland - $26 million USD revenue in a month.
Dragon Collection - 20 Million Users.
Will the genre catch on in new territories?
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Facebook entering China
Is it really happening?
What should we expect in terms of platform
for games?
Easier for Western social games to enter Chinese
market?
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Game Piracy in Asia
Still a big problem or have we defeated it?
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Cross platform games
Worth the extra effort?
PC/Mac iOS Android
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Location Based Games
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iTunes + App Store + SmartTV = Winner?
Next Frontier of gaming?Killer of consoles?
“Real” Apple TV
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Games as Entertainment Brands
aka Rovio Factor
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Still too early (again)?
HTML5 Games
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Bonus Topic: The next BIG market in Asia
India? Vietnam? Indonesia?
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Questions?