This article is a short excerpt from our most recent Asia Trends Report. Niko's Asia Trends Report is subscription based, timely, in-depth analysis of the market’s most important topics as they happen. Past notes have included topics such as regulatory landscape changes, how the next 150 million mobile gamers will enter China’s mobile games market, analysis [...]
China’s new gaming regulator, the State Administration of Press and Publication (SAPP), released today a list of digital games that have been granted a license for publication. Tencent, NetEase and Perfect World have titles in this list, which is the 4th batch of licenses since December 19, 2018 which licensing resumed after a 9-month ban. [...]
This article by Nick Yee of Quantic Foundry was originally published at VentureBeat, and with further statistical detail, at Quantic Foundry. Since the beginning of 2018, Quantic Foundry and Niko Partners have been working together on a series of survey-based projects. Niko Partners is a market research and consulting firm covering the games markets in Asia. In one of [...]
Since 2002, Niko Partners been publishing reports, analysis, and articles about the China and Greater Southeast Asia games markets. We’ve put together this list of our most popular analysis of 2018, organized by topic. You can also check our blog for frequent industry updates, articles and analysis, and subscribe to our free newsletter for each week’s [...]
An Online Game Ethics Committee has been established in Beijing under the guidance of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCPD). The newly established committee is formed of game experts and scholars who will evaluate whether certain games abide by the social values that China holds dear. China’s state [...]
Tencent and NetEase are the two largest games companies in China, accounting for more than 70% total games revenue generated domestically. Each company recently posted earnings for the first nine months of 2018. Since April, there has been a temporary game license approval freeze in China, which has had an impact on the entire games industry. [...]
Niko Partners has published an updated market model and 5-year forecast through 2022 for China’s PC Online and Mobile games market in Mainland China. 2018 games revenue has been adjusted downwards due to the ongoing temporary game approval freeze that started in April 2018. We now project total games revenue in China to reach $30.8 billion [...]
Tencent, the largest games company in the world, is introducing a new real name identity system that will make it mandatory for players of its hit MOBA, Honor of Kings, to verify their age before logging in. The system has been put in place to easily identify players under the age of 18 and apply restrictions [...]
China’s digital games market has endured a temporary game licensing freeze since April 2018, which we explained in our blog post published on September 17, 2018. The cause is regulatory agency restructuring, and it has impacted all game companies operating in China. Tencent, previously a top 5 internet company globally by market cap, has lost over [...]
This article is a short excerpt from one of our Research Notes. Research Notes are timely, in-depth analysis of the market’s most important topics as they happen. Past notes have included topics such as regulatory landscape changes, how the next 150 million mobile gamers will enter China’s mobile games market, analysis of games or genres and [...]
