Although it may not have the international name recognition of Google or Facebook, Tencent is an industry titan. The company, headquartered in Shenzhen, China and publicly traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for a decade, was valuedat just over US$150 billion last year. It was also the fifth-largest Internet company in the world and the [...]
FIFA Online 3 FIFA Online 3 (developed by Electronic Arts) is operated by Tencent in China, and reached PCU of more than 500,000 this month. Xiaoyi Ma, VP of Tencent Games, said that sports games like NBA2K Online and FIFA Online 3 comprise a smaller niche segment of the online games market in China, and this [...]
Niko Partners on CNBC Lisa Hanson was a featured guest on CNBC Asia on October 28th. The interview included lots of questions about mobile vs PC online gaming in SEA and China. For more updates, follow Niko Partners on Twitter. The 2014 China Rich List It pays to be a leader in an Internet, digital games [...]
MOL Global's IPO MOL Global had its initial public offering (NASDAQ: MOLG) on October 9th, and raised $169 million. MOL is the largest e-payment provider in SE Asia, covering 13 countries and 920,000 physical sales spots in 4 continents. It is the largest e-payment service provider in SEA's games industry, and a vast number of SEA [...]
Niko Partners at GamesBeat On Tuesday Sept 16th Niko Partners' own Michele Maguire was the moderator for a fireside chat with Jeff Lyndon, co-founder of iDreamSky, at the GamesBeat conference in San Francisco in a track called "Why China has become the hottest games market." The Xbox One in China Chinese consumers are gearing up for [...]
Meet Niko Partners at ChinaJoy Xiaofeng Zeng will attend ChinaJoy in Shanghai July 31 - August 4, 2014. Please contact Xiaofeng or Lisa to set up a meeting and learn about how Niko's research services can help your company succeed in Asia. Note: Beware all you ChinaJoy travelers - this is a summer of massive flight [...]
Sony to Launch PS4 in China A month after Microsoft's announcement that it will launch the XboxOne in China in September in its joint venture with Shanghai-based BesTV, Sony has announced that it will form two JVs with Shanghai Oriental Pearl Culture Development (owner of the famous Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong in Shanghai) to bring [...]
China's Mobile Carriers Launch Game Plan During the GMIC conference in Beijing May 5-6, the three largest Chinese mobile carriers jointly launched the "Double Hundreds Plan." The plan says they will jointly develop 100 mobile games to generate monthly revenue of more than 1 million RMB ($160,000), per title. Bloomberg reported that the carriers will have [...]
Tencent Acquires Stake in CJ Games Techcrunch reports that Tencent, the biggest online and mobile games company in China, has announced that it will pay $500 million for a 28% stake in CJ Games as it expands its global reach via acquisition. The transaction will make Tencent the third-largest investor in the South Korean gaming company [...]
Chinese Games vs. Japanese Games Yi Ren, CEO of DeNA China, was interviewed by Gamelook and talked about his understanding in different features between Chinese and Japanese mobile game market. Mr. Ren said that Japanese mobile games are known for the low quantity, high quality and long life cycle. Japanese gamers grew up with console game [...]
