Why is Microsoft, of all groups, monitoring Valve’s profits? That seems kinda weird to me, as though it’s overstepping some sort of boundary.
Myriad reasons. Guarantee Apple, Google, Sony, Tencent, and others on that list maintain a similar list.
They’re both into gaming hardware and game distribution. Companies pretty much always watch what their competition is doing.
I didn’t expect the Lemmy privacy mindset to go so far; competitor analysis is a thing in business, and when you aggregate such data you can also analyse industry trends and your business’s position in it. I don’t see why it’s a boundary?
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Why is Microsoft, of all groups, monitoring Valve’s profits?
An interesting thing to note is how big mobile gaming is when compared to PC gaming.
Apple and Google are largely on here because of their 30% platform cut (this chart only tracks gaming revenue). Steam takes the same cut yet has less than half the revenue.
(Note that while Tencent and NetEase are largely mobile publishers, they are not exclusively mobile publishers - League of Legends is owned by Tencent.)
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Interesting to see Valve at 6.5 bn, I would have guessed they were higher given the extent of Steam as a distribution platform. But I guess that makes sense some other companies have a myriad of other digital and physical products, where Valve has only their small slice in both (Half Life, Counter Strike, L4D, Ricochet for digital, and Steam Deck, Index, some merchandise for physical)
It probably is higher. Much higher.
How is Sony’s profit that much bigger than Nintendo? Basically everyone and their grandmother has at least 1 switch + games. Genuinely curious.
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Sony makes a lot more things than video games. Ever see the prices on one of their cameras?
This is just gaming revenue, otherwise Microsoft and Apple would clear.
Most of those profits from Ricochet, obviously.
My understanding is that, because they’re a private company, all we can do is vaguely guess
It’s interesting to me that Amazon isn’t on this list. AWS is massive, it’s the biggest cloud provider in the world and Luna still exists.
It appears to just count revenue from gaming streams, of which Amazon has very little.
