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Social Games in Asia(aka Where Facebook is Not Yet King) James Gwertzman VP Asia/Pacific james@popcap.com
Facebook Usage(as % of population) (source: www.nickburcher.com; visualized with OpenHeatMap)
Korea Japan China Taiwan India Philippines Thailand Vietnam Malaysia Indonesia Facebook Usage(as % of population) (source: www.nickburcher.com; visualized with OpenHeatMap) Australia
Korea India Thailand Facebook Growth(2010 vs. 2009) (source: www.nickburcher.com; visualized with OpenHeatMap)
China Market Overview Many competing platforms High DAU; Low ARPU Heavily regulated (esp. for foreign companies) Predominately PC focused
China SNS market QZone RenRen.com Sina Space 51.com Kaixin001.com Sohu Douban.com 139.com (mobile) Kaixin.com Other
User behaviors China’s platforms Facebook Stealing Cooperating
Art style China Facebook
Viral feeds QZone No app feeds RenRen App Feeds App Invites
App Discovery QZone RenRen App Directory Ads App Directory Banner Ads
Platform currency QZone QB RenRen RenRen Beans
Happy Tower“Farmville meets Cake Mania” Manage a shop Service your customers Steal from your friends DAU: 15M ARPU: $.005 / DAU Monthly revenue: $2.5M
Core Mechanic 1.Rent a floor to open a shop 2.Serve guests and get coins 3.Spend coins to upgrade and expand 4.Steal coins and guests from friends 5.Finish daily tasks for bonus rewards (1) (4) (2) (5)
Business Model Buy items to: Attract more customers Shorten service time Improve customer satisfaction
Viral Growth Friend invites
Fantasy Seabed
Business model Buy items to: Shorten growth time Extend harvest time Buy special fish
Viral Growth Friend Invites
Little War Grow, decorate village Make war on others Build magic powers Prank friends
Business Model Buy: Building materials Magic energy Special decorations Shorten growth time
Viral Growth Friend invites Form feeds
Japan Market Overview Mobile Phone (“Gala-kei”) Implementations High (US$2-$3) ARPU Limited social features: activity feeds, messaging, avatars
GREE vs DENA : Feature Phone As of Feb 7, 2011 As of Feb 11, 2011 1 Dragon Collection Kaitou Royale 2 100 Mannin No Sangokushi NouenHokkorina 3 Omiseyasan Kaizoku Treasure 4 Love&Job! Otona No Jijyou Hoshitsuku 5 Shirotsuku El Ark More competitive games Top 5, all from DeNA / 8 DeNA titles in Top 10 More like Nintendo More collaborative games Few titles from GREE Titles related to “love” and “boy” are popular More like Sony Computer Entertainment
Kaitou Royale Dragon Collection “Mafia Wars” style RPG “Mafia Wars” not popular in Japan Released as “Bandit Nation” in US; not especially successful Card collection and battle game Popular with women as men
100 Mannin no sangokushi NouenHokkorina Farming game “Strategy RPG” game Reunify ancient China Simple battle mechanics; no real fight interaction
Kaizoku Treasure Omiseyasan Seafaring Pirates Ship Battles Treasure hunting Shopkeeper game Visit friends’ shops, etc
Hoshitsuku Love & Job!Otona no jijyou Life drama game Main character works in nail salon At the turning point of your life, choose between love and job! Pay per-episode model Planet-building game Develop the culture on your planet Spend energy to go to other players’ planets and find items Use found items to boost your culture
GREE vs DENA : SMARTPHONE In service now Flash emulation Original web browser Native apps for Gree API To be launched on April Using NG moco’s engine “ngCore”, which is Android-iPhone cross-platform capable Native App calls GREE API Web based Flash Emulator
GREE vs DENA : PC SOCIAL Focusing on smartphone, not PC Partnering with Yahoo (Yabage) to go after PC
App Discovery & Virality Discovery through promotion or charts(new, top selling, recommended)  Virality limited to activity feeds & messaging Low click-through on game-related invites (25%)
Q4 2010 Mobile & PC trends Minutes spent Reach rate Average PV Mobile mixi mobile mobage Minutes spent Reach rate Average PV Ameba mobile SNS market in Japan PC Yabage Ameba pigg Hangame Q42010
Q42010 ARPU Item ARPU Ad ARPU Mobage (Unit: JPY) SNS market in Japan Q42010
Western Companies Competing in Asia Zynga China: purchased Beijing social game studio (XPD); developing primarily for Facebook Japan: $150M Softbank investment,; bought 120 people studio (Unoh); launched Farmville on Mixi platform (PC); working on mobile titles Crowdstar Partnership with Drecom in Japan to launch social titles on mobile EA Growing Playfish Beijing studio; opening iPhone studio in Beijing; planning to enter China market PopCap Built 80 person Shanghai studio; partnering in Japan, Korea, China Announced social-mobile “PopTower” project for Japan
Predictions… <$100 Android handsets Huge competition on social/mobile in China Facebook will partner to enter China
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Social Network Gaming in China and Japan

  • 1. Social Games in Asia(aka Where Facebook is Not Yet King) James Gwertzman VP Asia/Pacific james@popcap.com
  • 2.
  • 3. Facebook Usage(as % of population) (source: www.nickburcher.com; visualized with OpenHeatMap)
  • 4. Korea Japan China Taiwan India Philippines Thailand Vietnam Malaysia Indonesia Facebook Usage(as % of population) (source: www.nickburcher.com; visualized with OpenHeatMap) Australia
  • 5. Korea India Thailand Facebook Growth(2010 vs. 2009) (source: www.nickburcher.com; visualized with OpenHeatMap)
  • 6.
  • 7. China Market Overview Many competing platforms High DAU; Low ARPU Heavily regulated (esp. for foreign companies) Predominately PC focused
  • 8. China SNS market QZone RenRen.com Sina Space 51.com Kaixin001.com Sohu Douban.com 139.com (mobile) Kaixin.com Other
  • 9. User behaviors China’s platforms Facebook Stealing Cooperating
  • 10. Art style China Facebook
  • 11. Viral feeds QZone No app feeds RenRen App Feeds App Invites
  • 12. App Discovery QZone RenRen App Directory Ads App Directory Banner Ads
  • 13. Platform currency QZone QB RenRen RenRen Beans
  • 14. Happy Tower“Farmville meets Cake Mania” Manage a shop Service your customers Steal from your friends DAU: 15M ARPU: $.005 / DAU Monthly revenue: $2.5M
  • 15. Core Mechanic 1.Rent a floor to open a shop 2.Serve guests and get coins 3.Spend coins to upgrade and expand 4.Steal coins and guests from friends 5.Finish daily tasks for bonus rewards (1) (4) (2) (5)
  • 16. Business Model Buy items to: Attract more customers Shorten service time Improve customer satisfaction
  • 19. Business model Buy items to: Shorten growth time Extend harvest time Buy special fish
  • 21. Little War Grow, decorate village Make war on others Build magic powers Prank friends
  • 22. Business Model Buy: Building materials Magic energy Special decorations Shorten growth time
  • 23. Viral Growth Friend invites Form feeds
  • 24. Japan Market Overview Mobile Phone (“Gala-kei”) Implementations High (US$2-$3) ARPU Limited social features: activity feeds, messaging, avatars
  • 25. GREE vs DENA : Feature Phone As of Feb 7, 2011 As of Feb 11, 2011 1 Dragon Collection Kaitou Royale 2 100 Mannin No Sangokushi NouenHokkorina 3 Omiseyasan Kaizoku Treasure 4 Love&Job! Otona No Jijyou Hoshitsuku 5 Shirotsuku El Ark More competitive games Top 5, all from DeNA / 8 DeNA titles in Top 10 More like Nintendo More collaborative games Few titles from GREE Titles related to “love” and “boy” are popular More like Sony Computer Entertainment
  • 26. Kaitou Royale Dragon Collection “Mafia Wars” style RPG “Mafia Wars” not popular in Japan Released as “Bandit Nation” in US; not especially successful Card collection and battle game Popular with women as men
  • 27. 100 Mannin no sangokushi NouenHokkorina Farming game “Strategy RPG” game Reunify ancient China Simple battle mechanics; no real fight interaction
  • 28. Kaizoku Treasure Omiseyasan Seafaring Pirates Ship Battles Treasure hunting Shopkeeper game Visit friends’ shops, etc
  • 29. Hoshitsuku Love & Job!Otona no jijyou Life drama game Main character works in nail salon At the turning point of your life, choose between love and job! Pay per-episode model Planet-building game Develop the culture on your planet Spend energy to go to other players’ planets and find items Use found items to boost your culture
  • 30. GREE vs DENA : SMARTPHONE In service now Flash emulation Original web browser Native apps for Gree API To be launched on April Using NG moco’s engine “ngCore”, which is Android-iPhone cross-platform capable Native App calls GREE API Web based Flash Emulator
  • 31. GREE vs DENA : PC SOCIAL Focusing on smartphone, not PC Partnering with Yahoo (Yabage) to go after PC
  • 32. App Discovery & Virality Discovery through promotion or charts(new, top selling, recommended) Virality limited to activity feeds & messaging Low click-through on game-related invites (25%)
  • 33. Q4 2010 Mobile & PC trends Minutes spent Reach rate Average PV Mobile mixi mobile mobage Minutes spent Reach rate Average PV Ameba mobile SNS market in Japan PC Yabage Ameba pigg Hangame Q42010
  • 34. Q42010 ARPU Item ARPU Ad ARPU Mobage (Unit: JPY) SNS market in Japan Q42010
  • 35. Western Companies Competing in Asia Zynga China: purchased Beijing social game studio (XPD); developing primarily for Facebook Japan: $150M Softbank investment,; bought 120 people studio (Unoh); launched Farmville on Mixi platform (PC); working on mobile titles Crowdstar Partnership with Drecom in Japan to launch social titles on mobile EA Growing Playfish Beijing studio; opening iPhone studio in Beijing; planning to enter China market PopCap Built 80 person Shanghai studio; partnering in Japan, Korea, China Announced social-mobile “PopTower” project for Japan
  • 36.
  • 37. Predictions… <$100 Android handsets Huge competition on social/mobile in China Facebook will partner to enter China

Notas do Editor

  1. Social wars are over… facebook clearly the global SNSIf you’re a developer, just build for Facebook, right?
  2. Except that there are still some big pockets of Asia where Facebook is not yet the dominant network.
  3. Look at recent growth in Asia…Clearly #1 in Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, etc.But what’s going on in Japan and China?
  4. Looking at growth is even more interesting – look how fast FB is growing in Korea, India, Thailand, etc. But not really at all in China or Japan. So what’s going on there?
  5. Well, in China FB is blocked for most usersGreat Chinese FirewallSo that’s giving other networks an opportunity to grow
  6. This is all you need to remember about social networks in China.
  7. This is older data but it gives you a sense of the key players.
  8. Because viral channels are limited, promotion through the app directory and encouraging friends to invite other friends are especially important channels.
  9. Here’s an example of a leading SNS game in China.
  10. Here is all you need to know about SNS games in Japan.
  11. Gree and DeNA are the two leading mobile social networks.
  12. Here’s a sample screenshot from our localized Bejeweled Blitz game running on RenRen in China – this was more of an experiment for us, not a major focus.