China's Top 100 Internet Companies GameLook reported that Internet Society of China and MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China) jointly released a "China's Top 100 Internet Companies" list. The top 10 are Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, JD.com, Qihoo360, Sohu, NetEase, Sina, Ctrip (Xie Cheng), and Fang.com. It's worth noticing that several gaming companies also [...]
Games are Key to Consoles Succeeding in China Many media outlets around the world picked up Niko Partners' press release on our most recent research report, Chinese TV-based Gaming, as it included our views on the current and future state of console gaming in China. Gamelook's analysis included data from our release and other interesting information. [...]
MIIT's Goals for China China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced three major goals that need to be achieved by the end of 2017: 1. All households in cities should have access to 100M internet provided by optical fiber, and all cities and countryside should be covered by 4G internet; 2. The average broadband [...]
Sony PS4 & Vita Launched in China Sony PS4 and PS Vita were launched in China on March 20, 2015 after a 2-month delay. The price point of the devices is slightly lower than that of Xbox One, but specials exist for Xbox One too making it competitive in some situations. There remains a question of [...]
Happy New Year! Happy Year of the Goat! - 羊年快乐！ We're looking forward to an exciting 2015 and our 13th year of providing high integrity market intelligence reports and services on the Chinese and Southeast Asian digital games markets to clients around the world. Supercell to Deliver In-Game Red Envelopes Supercell, global powerhouse mobile game developer [...]
Xbox One Launch in China Xbox One launched in China and reports say that 100,000 units were sold on day 1. The goal is to sell 1 million units within the first 12 months. Microsoft says that shipments of Xbox One in North America achieved 5 million units in the past six months. In Japan the [...]
Xbox One Launched on Sept. 29th in China The Xbox One launched September 29 after a one-week delay from the planned launch date in China. Initial reaction is positive but many gamers are waiting to see which of the 70 games in the pipeline for launch will actually make it to market. 10 games, including 2 [...]
