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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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[+] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Cs:go, dota 2, artifact and underlords i think.

I guess this is estimated revenue through game sales, otherwise i'd think activision-blizzard(candy crush) and valve(steam cut, dota and cs micro transactions, steam market) would be higher.

And of course MS has an interest to undervalue some companies compared to sony and nintendo

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nah it was that shitty dota card game.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume that's gaming revenue not total?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple’s total revenue was almost $400B in 2022. I think App Store revenue was $36B. So this must be just games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow mobile gaming is making bank.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have to imagine Valve has a war chest they can use, if they wanted, to do some acquisitions.