Steam revenue nearly 1 billion US American freedom dollars

[Multi-headed Cow]

http://gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=15556

Top Selling Titles, by Estimated Gross Revenues in 2010

* Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision) - $98.2 Million USD
* Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision) - $39.4 Million USD
* Left 4 Dead 2 (Valve) - $36.0 Million USD
* Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts) - $25.4 Million USD
* Sid Meier's Civilization V (2K Games) - $21.9 Million USD
* Portal (Valve) - $20.0 Million USD
* Fallout: New Vegas (Bethesda Softworks) - $17.0 Million USD
* Metro 2033 (THQ) - $13.4 Million USD
* Mafia II (2K Games) - $11.9 Million USD
* Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising (THQ) - $10.8 Million USD

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[7hm]

Re: Steam revenue nearly 1 billion US American freedom dolla

http://gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=15556

Top Selling Titles, by Estimated Gross Revenues in 2010

* Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision) - $98.2 Million USD
* Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision) - $39.4 Million USD
* Left 4 Dead 2 (Valve) - $36.0 Million USD
* Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts) - $25.4 Million USD
* Sid Meier's Civilization V (2K Games) - $21.9 Million USD
* Portal (Valve) - $20.0 Million USD
* Fallout: New Vegas (Bethesda Softworks) - $17.0 Million USD
* Metro 2033 (THQ) - $13.4 Million USD
* Mafia II (2K Games) - $11.9 Million USD
* Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising (THQ) - $10.8 Million USD

Holy shit?

The game was free for a while too.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

To be fair if you look at that, these are ESTIMATED numbers. So it's entirely possible the people making these estimated numbers have their heads up their asses, especially in regards to Portal which A: was included in Orange Box so it was part of a bundle, B: was released in 2007, and C: as mentioned was free for like two weeks.

I'm betting the estimates (For Portal at the very least) are wrong.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

$20 if not on Steam, $300,000 if sold for $5 each on Steam.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I've heard that Steam actually tends to take a smaller cut than other distributors, and SIGNIFICANTLY less than retail. Though everyone I've talked to has been cagey about the specific numbers of course, I think it's supposedly 20-30%.

Though this is just my stab in the dark from insubstantial blog/forum posts. Haven't seen anything concrete anywhere.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Here's an example of ridiculous Steam sale doing good.
http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon ... php?t=2512

 

[Metro]

All hail Gabe.

 

[SharkClub]

Wow, Metro 2033 sold a lot. It deserves it too.

 

[Twinkle]

It came from VGChartz

 

[ortucis]

I wonder if Metro 2033 would have sold so many copies if STALKER was on consoles as well. I mean, STALKER is still superior (and Metro didn't exactly do anything special in the end).

In comparison, look at STALKER sales on PC so far. Another reason for PC developers to go consoles. Most PC gamers already have consoles where they seem to prefer playing FPS.

Infact, on a PC site like Rock Paper Shotgun, the reviewers actually play games on consoles and post reviewes every now and then.

 

[racofer]

More pizza for Gabe the Hutt.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

 

[Raapys]

So how exactly did they 'estimate' this shit? It's not like Valve is very forthcoming with such stuff?

 

[Achilles]

It's the digital branch of VG Chartz, which basically means that these numbers are bullshit.

 

[Drakron]

eh, portal came free with my steam installer

Funny, Steam come free with my free Portal (that was when Valve made it free for a while).

 

[Pegultagol]

A sneaky way of increasing sales on PC:

Assemble a generic shooter that is shitty unoptimized and sluggish even on the cutting edge hardware.
Spread PR that the game in question requires absolutely the state of the art GPU and even that isn't even enough to contain the greatness that is its graphics. "The game RUNS the graphics card (into the ground)!"
Make even crappier console ports and release comparison shots of how uber the PC version is.
Slap on a PhsyX logo
Release benchmark tool
Release on Steam
Profit

Left 4 Dead 2, Portal, Half-Life spawns & derivatives = 100% return for Valve

 

[Destroid]

I'm glad I didn't pay $20 for a game that took such a short time to play (maybe 60-90 minutes if I recall correctly). Looking forward to Portal 2 though, hopefully it's a bit longer.