Good Start
Pokemon Masters generates $33 million from first month
Free-to-play title catches 12 million installs
Company Profile
DeNA
Website
www.dena.jp
About
An innovator in the mobile and internet space, DeNA connects millions of people in Japan. Its product Mobage-town is the fastest-growing virtual social networking service, driven by high quality free-of-charge games.
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Isao Moriyasu
President and CEO
Barry Dorf
VP, Partnerships and Alliances
Tom Hess
Executive Producer
Tomoko Namba
Chairman
Jennie Sue
Producer
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Accolades
Articles featuring DeNA
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Pokemon Masters tops US free App Store rank
Rankings from August 26th to October 1st
Masterful
Pokemon Masters raked in $26 million from first week
Title surpassed 10 million downloads in less than four days
Gotta Sync ‘em All
Pokemon Masters champions 10 million downloads in four days
Number one for downloads across 27 countries including the US and Japan
Critical Hit?
Pokemon Masters launches globally on iOS and Android
Title had surpassed five million pre-registrations ahead of release
There Are Dozens Of Us
Pokemon Masters has five million Trainers already pre-registered
Release date tentatively set for August 29th
Gotta Friend ‘em All
Pokemon Masters launches on mobile this summer
“The idea was to create a gameplay experience where you could not only befriend Pokemon but also trainers to battle alongside you”
Financials
DeNA games sales and profits fall in FY2018
Company hopeful Mario Kart Tour can do the business in 2019
I Choose You
The Pokemon Company partners with DeNA for new mobile game
Game is due to arrive before the end of March 2020
Keep Your Money
Nintendo urges mobile partners to not focus on player spending
Mario maker does not want to be seen as greedy
Demonic
DENA and Platinum's World of Demons possibly canned after App Store removal
The hack and slash game had initially soft-launched in Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia in June of last year
Partnership News
DENA partners with Tencent to launch mutli-billion dollar hit Arena of Valor in Japan
Will Japan prove a successful venture for the hit MOBA?
Straight Fire
Nintendo’s Fire Emblem Heroes brings in over $417m in revenue
The tactical RPG has made up 78 per cent of Nintendo’s mobile revenue since launch in February 2017
Best Of 2018
The Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2018
Revealed: the movers, shakers and moneymakers!
Fired Up
Fire Emblem Heroes fires up $400m in worldwide revenue
The RPG launched just under 18 months ago and has proven to be Nintendo’s most popular outing on mobile
World Tour
Platinum Games and DENA soft-launch World of Demons in Southeast Asia
The RPG is seen as a spiritual successor to Clover Studio’s Okami
Down
Revenues and profits down for DENA’s games segment over the past year
Virtual currency consumption for browser titles declined
Hack And Slash
Platinum partners with DENA for Okami spiritual successor World of Demons
The hack-and-slash title will make its way to iOS this summer with an Android release set for later in 2018
Financial Report
DeNA fails to hit holiday expectations despite Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp launch
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp pinpointed as a highly for the quarter
Mario Kart Dena
Mario Kart Tour's 'free-to-start' model might not mean what you think
Nintendo has been more liberal with the phrase following Super Mario Run's under-performance
Bulls & Bears
Which mobile game stocks performed best in 2017?
On the up
Heck Yeah
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp launches a day early
Hasn't changed much since soft launch
Happy Pocket Camper
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp doesn't experiment and is better for it
Making a smaller version of the core game experience has proven to work in Pocket Camp's favour
Best Of 2017
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2017
The movers, shakers and moneymakers
Mobile Game Heroes
DeNA games business profits up on back of Nintendo partnership as overall revenues fall
Fire Emblem Heroes sales "satisfactory" for Japanese publisher
Dena X Nintendo
DeNA dedicates 10% of staff to Nintendo mobile games
DeNA and Nintendo's partnership is going "extremely well"
Rising Costs
Mobile game development costs in Japan have risen as high as $9 million per game
Serkan Toto looks into the rising cost of making a game
Vaulting Ambition
What happens when global expansion goes bad: A cautionary tale from Japan
What GungHo and Mixi learned from GREE and DeNA
Dena Financials Q4 Fy17
DeNA revenues hit $1.26 billion as it plots further partnerships beyond Nintendo
Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes doing well for the developer
Acquisitive Inquisitions
10 mobile game M&A deals that probably won't happen but which maybe should
Joining the dollar dots
Homegrown Talent
Whatever happened to Fire Emblem Heroes?
How has Nintendo’s first F2P mobile game launched?
Dena Financials Q3 Fy16
DeNA revenues and profits fall while native mobile games vastly outperform browser for the first time
Nintendo partnership confirmed to be "mid to long-term"
Fired Up
Nintendo’s Japan-first approach for Fire Emblem Heroes pays off as it nets $2.9 million on its first day
Already a top grosser in the US and Japan
Iap Inspector
How does Fire Emblem Heroes monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Fire Emblem Launches
Nintendo's third mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes lands on Android and iOS
Will it be a success?
Fire Emblem Heroes
Fire Emblem Heroes reveal shows Nintendo is going fully free-to-play
Gacha and key art implies Super Mario Run's model has been ditched
Super Mario Launch
Super Mario Run to launch on iOS on December 15th for $10
Plumber makes his way to mobile next month
Dena Financials
DeNA to double down on Nintendo partnership into next year and beyond
Publisher also plans to release five games of its own in Japan and China
Crossing The Animal
Super Mario Run will be great, but Animal Crossing Mobile is even more exciting
Playing it safe versus adapting to the platform
Super Mario Downloads
Super Mario Run will reach 1.5 billion downloads across its lifespan, claims analyst
So predicts Kantan Games' CEO Serkan Toto
Let Me Know
Super Mario Run App Store listing notifies players of release and sheds new light on gameplay
Follows the free-to-start model outlined by DeNA
Mario Chart
Nintendo and DeNA shares rocket on Miyamoto's mobile Mario game announcement at Apple's Keynote
Shares rose as much as 18% before settling to 11% up
Dena Financials Fy16 Q1
DeNA sees small revenue increase as it focuses in on Japan and China
Stepping away from the economic uncertainty of the rest of the world
Challenges Ahead
With shareholders wising up to Nintendo's small stake in Pokemon GO, pressure on its next mobile games is higher than ever
A true one-off
Gotta Count Them All
Pokemon Go adds $8 billion to Nintendo's value over the weekend
Market cap up 40%
Miito-no
With declining MAUs and falling retention, Miitomo looks like it's on the slide
Slow core loop to blame
Free Emblem
Nintendo confirms Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem mobile games will be free-to-play
After the success of Miitomo, it's no real surprise
Best Of The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016
The shakers, movers and moneymakers
It's Not Yet Mario
Nintendo mobile games #2 and #3 will be Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem
Two of five to go
Getting Fluffy
FTUE: Timenauts
DeNA's back in the game