Sales in the app stores in Japan are the world's best, followed by the USA with a close range

ByTheo Jones

Perform data analysis of the app storeApp AnnieAccording to the report, it turned out that Japan held down the United States and achieved the world 's best sales at the app store.

Japan Spotlight: Hey Big Spender! Japan Outspends US, Continues Its Meteoric Growth | App Annie BlogApp Annie Blog
http://blog.appannie.com/japan-spotlight-revenue-inflection-point/

Japan Tops World in Mobile Apps Revenue - Japan Real Time - WSJ
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/12/11/japan-tops-world-in-mobile-apps-revenue/

The chart below shows the sales of applications from October 2012 to October 2013 on the App Store and Google Play by country. As of October 2012, sales of apps in Japan were about 60% of the US, but in the process of depicting a rapid growth line, in October 2013 we reduced the US and became the world's best. App sales in Japan are worth about 3 times that of Korea and about 6 times that of the UK.


According to App Annie 's report, sales of game apps in Japan in October 2013 were about four times as much as the same month of the previous year, and the game application boosted the strong sales of application sales It seems to be. Game data research companyNew ZooPeter Woman, CEO in August 2013, said that sales of Japanese game applications will reach about 26% of the worldwide sales forecast of $ 12.2 billion (about 1.25 trillion yen), " I will have expected results as expected.

ByTraci Lawson

Gun Ho'sPuzzle & DragonsIs domesticOver 20 million downloadsAnd Softbank and Gung Ho in FinlandAcquired popular game application companyThere are signs that the leaps of game applications are still going on, and it seems to have an impact on the sales of the entire application.