75 ABOUT
Founded: 1999 Independent Location: Tokyo, Japan
www.landho.co.jp
The craze for dance games has kept Land Ho! pretty busy in the last 24 months. The Japanese studio started out making the horse racing simulators that are so popular in its home nation, but found success overseas in 2011 with Dance Juniors. This title netted the developer £2 million in UK sales revenue; something that will have pleased its publisher, Ubisoft, who also contracted Land Ho! to make several other dance titles, including Just Dance Kids. The studio is home to a team of 80 at its Tokyo base. Its health-conscious CEO Masanobu Tsukamoto reportedly prefers to work while sitting on a rubber balance ball, bringing something of a new meaning to the phrase “steady on, captain”.
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WHILE YOUR BOSS HAS A CHAIR... ... Land Ho!’s CEO prefers to work on a rubber exercise ball
STUDIO’S 2011 BESTSELLERS FORMATS
DANCE JUNIORS
MY FITNESS COACH: DANCE WORKOUT
JUST DANCE KIDS
THE SMURFS
THE SMURFS: DANCE PARTY
WII
TOTAL WII
TOTAL WII
DS XBOX 360
TOTAL WII
TOTAL
PUBLISHER UBISOFT
UBISOFT
PLAYSTATION 3 TOTAL
UBISOFT UBISOFT UBISOFT
UBISOFT UBISOFT
RELEASE DATE TOTAL REV FEB 2011
£2.01m £2.01m
AUG 2010 £0.60m £0.60m
NOV 2011 £0.40m NOV 2011 £0.12m NOV 2011 £0.03m £0.55m
JULY 2011 JULY 2011
£0.39m £0.39m
£0.34m £0.34m
LAND HO!
develop 100 UK RETAIL REVENUE IN 2011
£3.88m
THE WORLD’S BEST GAME STUDIOS
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