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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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.
  
  Wow mobile gaming is making bank.
- Has to be. There's no way the owners of the biggest storefront for pc gaming makes as much as EA.
  
  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?
  
  I think they're trying to say that if it was total revenue, valve should have way bigger numbers
  
  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?
  
  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).
  
  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?
  
  I think they’re trying to say that if it was total revenue, valve should have way bigger numbers
  https://www.ea.com/games/library/mobile
  Mobile games are huge.
  
  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.
  
  Why? 30% a sale, sounds about right
  
  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.
  
  Google isn't that much higher and has a larger global market share.

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