mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.fmhy.net to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoMicrosoft estimated Valve’s revenue in 2021 at $6.5bn Interesting to see another view on the scale of Valve’s businessi.imgur.comimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1147arrow-down1imageMicrosoft estimated Valve’s revenue in 2021 at $6.5bn Interesting to see another view on the scale of Valve’s businessi.imgur.commr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.fmhy.net to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareNighed@sffa.communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·1 year agoI assume that’s gaming revenue not total?
minus-squareSatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoApple’s total revenue was almost $400B in 2022. I think App Store revenue was $36B. So this must be just games.
minus-squarelorty@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·1 year agoHas to be. There’s no way the owners of the biggest storefront for pc gaming makes as much as EA.
minus-squareka-chow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoBut how could Valve have made $6.5b off of their own games? They haven’t released anything in yonks have they?! Plus EA have the gacha-fication of FIFA/every other sports game franchise they own with Ultimate Team, etc.
minus-squarelorty@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoBattle passes, lootboxes, keys and whatnot.
minus-squareNefyedardu@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoAre you being facetious? Dota and Counter Strike make a ton of money.
minus-squareGoronmon@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThose two are surely pretty valuable. But I doubt they are, on their own, billions of dollars a year valuable.
minus-squareQuokka@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoActiBlizion are on there, so sounds about right.
minus-squarefireflash38@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoBut Google that high? I wouldn’t have expected as high considering Apple (another one who takes a cut of mobile gaming) isn’t.
I assume that’s gaming revenue not total?
Apple’s total revenue was almost $400B in 2022. I think App Store revenue was $36B. So this must be just games.
Has to be. There’s no way the owners of the biggest storefront for pc gaming makes as much as EA.
But how could Valve have made $6.5b off of their own games? They haven’t released anything in yonks have they?! Plus EA have the gacha-fication of FIFA/every other sports game franchise they own with Ultimate Team, etc.
Battle passes, lootboxes, keys and whatnot.
Are you being facetious? Dota and Counter Strike make a ton of money.
Those two are surely pretty valuable. But I doubt they are, on their own, billions of dollars a year valuable.
ActiBlizion are on there, so sounds about right.
But Google that high? I wouldn’t have expected as high considering Apple (another one who takes a cut of mobile gaming) isn’t.