Likewise, the top free charts for both stores revealed that 50 per cent of the top 100 ranking Apps on Google Play Japan were games, compared to 36 per cent on the App Store. On the App Store, the figure was 87 per cent. Metaps also took a look at popular categories of apps in both charts, and found that games have found a stronger grounding on Android than iOS in Japan.Īccording to the data, 94 percent of the top 100 ranking apps on the Japanese Google Play grossing chart were games. Over on the App Store, only Dragon Quest Monsters Super Light and The White Cat Project have managed to muscle their way into the number one ranking.
Interestingly, the sheer scale of both games' success is made clear by the fact that no other game has come close to number one in the Japanese Google Play charts this year. On App Store, the score was 18 to 12 in Monster Strike's favour. On Google Play, Monster Strike was #1 for 16 days compared to 13 for Puzzle & Dragons. The change of fortune has been charted by Japanese analytics outfit Metaps, which noticed that November 2014 was the first month that Monster Strike managed to spend more days than Puzzle & Dragons in the number one spot - both on Google Play and the App Store. The plucky usurper is none other than Mixi's Monster Strike, a card-collecting RPG that owes a lot to the successes of franchises like Pokémon and Digimon. After two years perched atop the Japanese Google Play and App Store charts, Puzzle & Dragons has finally been stripped of its title as the number one top grossing app in Japan.
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