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Microsoft estimated Valve’s revenue in 2021 at $6.5bn Interesting to see another view on the scale of Valve’s business (i.imgur.com)

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Has to be. There’s no way the owners of the biggest storefront for pc gaming makes as much as EA.

What non-gaming revenue do both EA and Valve have? Do you think that EA makes surprisingly much or Valve surprisingly little?

[-] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I think they're trying to say that if it was total revenue, valve should have way bigger numbers

[-] elshandra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What non-gaming revenue do both EA and Valve have?

If their gaming revenue is 6.5 their total revenue is about 6.5 no?

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Being a marketplace for other people's games would probably be classified as a different type of income, specially if steam sells software that's not games (which it does).

[-] elshandra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'll grant that a looot of valve's revenue is from marketplace & steam store, and sure they sell other products but it's a drop in the bucket vs gaming. It's effectively a service for gamers. It's probably not considered gaming revenue for accounting/internal politics reasons.

I would wager that if it were possible to, you'd be able to link a vast majority of valve's revenue to the purpose of gaming. Reality vs financial reality?

[-] Rose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to Wikipedia, Steam made over 3 billion in 2017, but they also earn from microtransactions primarily in Dota 2 and CS:GO, which continue to be some of the most played games on Steam.