How exactly do you flirt with a billion dollars, anyway?
Do you give it coy looks and shove cards under it's door?
Do you give it coy looks and shove cards under it's door?
Steam Flirts With $1 Billion in 2010
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It's amazing how well some games have sold but I'm surprised that Portal did so well considering it came out 2007 and Metro surprised me too.
But I always thought that Valve doesn't release any information about the sales on Steam.
But I always thought that Valve doesn't release any information about the sales on Steam.
No this are numbers are only from Steam.LightOfDarkness said:
Steam Flirts With $1 Billion in 2010
C'mon Valve! Release Episode 3 already and you won't be just flirting - you'll be humping a billion dollars at full steam![footnote]Excuse the terrible pun, but I'm going all the distance for HL2E3. Gabe wouldn't budge![/footnote]
C'mon Valve! Release Episode 3 already and you won't be just flirting - you'll be humping a billion dollars at full steam![footnote]Excuse the terrible pun, but I'm going all the distance for HL2E3. Gabe wouldn't budge![/footnote]
You know Sacman, you just made me take a break from bitching about lack of demos and BF1943 on the PC - and look at this picture with pride. Our platform has grown up so much... Despite all your flaws, PC, you're still the best. :,)Sacman said:Here we go...
Nope people have been saying PC gaming is dying since the Nes was released in the U.S...<.<fisk0 said:Isn't 1985 pushing it a little? Didn't the "PC gaming is dying" thing start around the end of the N64/PSX generation?Sacman said:Here we go...
OT: I'm glad Metro 2033 sold so well that was one of my favorite shooters of recent memory...<.<
And, well, the PC is and will most certainly remain the leading platform for indie games, especially considering last year's hits Minecraft and Amnesia. Frictional Games said this about the dying platform: "If online sales figures continue like they have with Amnesia, there is actually not any reason for us to release to anything but PC."
It also REQUIRED a gfwl activation, you don't see the game selling that much there, also it got a big retail release.Scrumpmonkey said:
Fun times: Total software sales in 2009 (and probably similar to this year) was 10.5 billion.
Steam alone is equivalent to 10% of the market. Add in retail (about 1/2 billion in 2009) and other avenues (probably at least 1/2 billion) and you're looking at a 15-20% PC market share. And that's without MMORPG subscriptions! (World of Warcraft alone, at $15 per month, makes two billion dollars worldwide; at least 750 million stateside)) Dying, my hat.
More interestingly, Valve is in the position on PC that Microsoft holds on 360. They make a (15%?) commission off 10% of the videogames industry, in addition to the games of their own that they sell. In terms of practical staying power, I'd say Valve rivals the Big Three - and that's a situation that I personally am quite comfortable with.
More rumination:
Blizzard sold 4.7 million copies of World of Warcraft Cataclysm in its first month.
At $40 apiece, this is $188 million. For a single game. And most of that was retail. Starcraft 2 has sold at least 3 million copies - at $60 a pop - for a total of at least $180 million. Blizzard's new-release games alone made at least $368 million at retail.
Steam alone is equivalent to 10% of the market. Add in retail (about 1/2 billion in 2009) and other avenues (probably at least 1/2 billion) and you're looking at a 15-20% PC market share. And that's without MMORPG subscriptions! (World of Warcraft alone, at $15 per month, makes two billion dollars worldwide; at least 750 million stateside)) Dying, my hat.
More interestingly, Valve is in the position on PC that Microsoft holds on 360. They make a (15%?) commission off 10% of the videogames industry, in addition to the games of their own that they sell. In terms of practical staying power, I'd say Valve rivals the Big Three - and that's a situation that I personally am quite comfortable with.
More rumination:
Blizzard sold 4.7 million copies of World of Warcraft Cataclysm in its first month.
At $40 apiece, this is $188 million. For a single game. And most of that was retail. Starcraft 2 has sold at least 3 million copies - at $60 a pop - for a total of at least $180 million. Blizzard's new-release games alone made at least $368 million at retail.
The multiplayer is managed through GFWL, which is why your friendslist etc consists of gamertags and you gain live achievments.Scrumpmonkey said:
The reason was that GFWL had rts matchmaking features that valve only has for fps.
Valve coded those for steamwiorks now, so they won't need GFWL for new addons.
Just checked, you can't play anything without first logging in to your GFWL Account.
Strange. Since I'm not american I can only look at this from the european perspective, but over here computer games were pretty much unaffected by the video game crash of 83, and while the NES certainly got big (and revived the entire video game market after the crash), I never heard consoles really being brought up as competitors or alternatives to home computers until the late 90's. Up until then I thought it was mainly looked at as something of a complement to computer games, or something neat to use the TV for when the 4 TV channels signed off the air for the night.Sacman said:Nope people have been saying PC gaming is dying since the Nes was released in the U.S...<.<fisk0 said:Isn't 1985 pushing it a little? Didn't the "PC gaming is dying" thing start around the end of the N64/PSX generation?Sacman said:Here we go...
OT: I'm glad Metro 2033 sold so well that was one of my favorite shooters of recent memory...<.<
And, well, the PC is and will most certainly remain the leading platform for indie games, especially considering last year's hits Minecraft and Amnesia. Frictional Games said this about the dying platform: "If online sales figures continue like they have with Amnesia, there is actually not any reason for us to release to anything but PC."
I think Steam is a great distribution platform for games, especially the friend-network atmosphere. You can see who's playing what game, you can message them and it shows up in game (if the game is built w/ Steam in mind). Very user-friendly. Funny thing about this though, Steam made almost $1 Billion in sales, but they still don't have a phone number you can call for technical problems. Any correspondence HAS to be sent via email...pretty irritating if your account has been hijacked or there's a money issue involved.
No one remembers the sleeper hits, like Amnesia or The Path or even Audiosurf. Which is sad, because they're the games that inject the industry with the most money that no one realizes is there.fisk0 said:
OT: How on Earth is Portal still number six on the list?
Please tell me this won't result in another wave of "The Cake is a lie" jokes.
Portal? Holy cow. That's a ... what... 3 year old game? And it still is near the top in sales. That is just astounding.
Prepare for rant, wait for it.....wait for it....COME OUT WITH EPISODE 3 PLEASE K THNX BYEKiefer13 said:
OT: I'm sorta surprised that valve accumilated that much, I thought only a hand full of people bought games off of steams that were not made by Valve.
That just shows how great portal is:
Its half way up the top ten list for most sales the year after the year after the year it came out.
Its half way up the top ten list for most sales the year after the year after the year it came out.
One of the splash screens in Minecraft is "Not available on Steam!", which has sad implications to what Notch feels towards Steam. Who knows, maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt Mojang will hand Minecraft over.kebab4you said:
You've clearly missed the Christmas Steam Sale threads. "I bought ten billion games, and I've only downloaded two! I'm good for another two years!" and other such comments.Redratson said: