NOV. 7, 2011 • Nexon Co. Ltd. hopes listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange will raise as much as ¥100 billion yen ($1.3 billion) once the Nexon IPO is complete in December. According to the [...]
AUG. 9, 2011 • InComm is rolling out Sony’s PlayStation Network Card to 13,000 retail locations in Japan. The cards come in ¥3,000 ($39), ¥5,000 ($65), and ¥10,000 ($130). The value of the [...]
APRIL 11, 2011 • Research firm Media Create reported that Sony sold 170,000 PlayStation Move motion-sensing controllers in the Japanese market during 2010, compared to 90,000 Microsoft Kinects. [...]
FEB. 27, 2011 • The Nintendo 3DS went on sale in Japan for ¥25,000 yen ($300). An estimated 400,000 units were shipped in for the launch. By March 31, Nintendo expects to sell 1.5 million units [...]
OCT. 12, 2010 • DeNA, the company behind Mobage Town mobile social game platform in Japan, acquired San Francisco Bay Area iPhone game developer Ngmoco for $400 million. The acquisition was one [...]