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Hype vs. Real Deal Asia Edition

Transcript of Hype vs. Real Deal Asia Edition. 2 Panelists/Oracles Vishal Gondal CEO & Founder - Indiagames James...

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Hype vs. Real DealAsia Edition

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Panelists/Oracles

• Vishal Gondal CEO & Founder - Indiagames

• James GwertzmanGM Asia/Pacific - Popcap Games

• Noritaka KobayashiVP Business Development - GREE

• Josh LarsonPresident - Mochi Media

Moderator:• Stanley Adrianus

Founder & CEO, Gamenauts

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The Future is Mobile

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Mobile Market: $7.5 Billion by 2015

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Effect on other industry sectors

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Effect on other industry sectors

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Disney buying Indiagames.EA buying Popcap.

GREE buying Funzio.Zynga buying 1 GAZILLION developers.

More coming in the future…or just hype?

Game Company Acquisitions

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Android

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Android in Asia

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Hang on a sec…

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Future outlook vs iOS.

$$$ - will it ever match iOS?

Fragmentation – will it get any better?

Better fit for Asian market?(lower cost, penetration, carrier partnerships etc.)

What’s the verdict on Android?

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Gotcha GACHA!Panic in JP Social Games?

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Fallout of Gacha-Gate

What will the real effect be for the social games market in Japan and elsewhere?

More governments stepping in to regulate?

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GREE & DeNA in the West

Will they dominate the Western & other Asian markets?

US acquisitions (ngmoco & Open Feint) – has it been or ?

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Zynga in Asia

What will it take for Zynga to win Asian markets?

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Bonus Question!

Who will win big FIRST globally?

ZYNGA vs GREE vs DeNA

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Trading Card Games

#1 genre in Japanese mobile games.

Doliland - $26 million USD revenue in a month.

Dragon Collection - 20 Million Users.

Will the genre catch on in new territories?

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Facebook entering China

Is it really happening?

What should we expect in terms of platform

for games?

Easier for Western social games to enter Chinese

market?

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Game Piracy in Asia

Still a big problem or have we defeated it?

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Cross platform games

Worth the extra effort?

PC/Mac iOS Android

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Location Based Games

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iTunes + App Store + SmartTV = Winner?

Next Frontier of gaming?Killer of consoles?

“Real” Apple TV

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Games as Entertainment Brands

aka Rovio Factor

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Still too early (again)?

HTML5 Games

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Bonus Topic: The next BIG market in Asia

India? Vietnam? Indonesia?

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Questions?