Microsoft estimated Valve’s revenue in 2021 at $6.5bn Interesting to see another view on the scale of Valve’s business

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• RxBrad@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Valve pockets 30% of almost every PC game sale by every company ever.

  Honestly, I’m surprised that number isn’t higher.

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  • chetradley@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The really impressive thing about Valve is the amount of revenue they make with a relatively small head count. They have about 1/10 the number of employees as EA.

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    • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What was the last game they made prior to Half-Life Alyx? Portal 2?

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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Seems about right. They don’t have a complete monopoly and the industry seems to be making most of their money off micro-transactions these days instead of sales, something valve takes no cut of outside there own games. Meanwhile apple and google do have monopolies and take a cut of micro-transactions which accounts for there significantly larger revenue.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It might be. It’s hard to know since Valve isn’t a public company, so it’s all estimations and guesses.

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• Nighed@sffa.community ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I assume that’s gaming revenue not total?

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