So, apart from Black Ops, every other game in 2010 on steam sold less than 1m ....

It's fantastic news. At one point I wasn't even sure if STEAM was going to take off or not.

Particularly as it was given away free for part of last year as well. Mind you, Fade are VG Chartz in disguise, so it's not like we should expect any accuracy.

Maybe I should revise my statement. For a single service these are impressive numbers. Valve must be happy.

Don't forget that many titles were on sale during the year... Its hard to pull in huge amounts of cash when 80% of the library is at or below $20 per title. Most of the titles that made the list were sold at full price through the entire year (sans L4D2 and Portal), so the list really doesn't show a great picture of the market in terms of unit sales.

These number are really unimpressive...

I don't believe in these numbers at all, especially not in Black Ops selling 1.6 million through Digital Download at $50 or $60 a peace on the PC. I wouldn't believe in it even if it was 800K.

Black Ops sales being 10 % of total Steam revenue. Give me a break.

That just doesn't make sense. I remember reports of how badly MW (or was it MW2) sold on PC (just a few hundred thousand, dd plus retail combined), and Call of Duty is nearly as hated and despised among PC gamers now as it was back then.

That's definitely not even close to the real numbers that Steam is actually pulling. Are you telling me that Steam only made $1 billion?! So the entire Worldwide DD market is only $1.4 billion (if Steam equals 70% of the market)?! That can't be right.

Both NPD and Zoomedia(?) state that there's more than $1.4 Billion DD PC sales in the US alone, let alone worldwide.

We will only know the truth when Valve allows.

that never happened, because all call of duty entries should be atleast million sellers on PC, if not multi-million sellers (as much as it pains to me say it).

Obviously MW1 eventually sold more than a million easily on PC, but I was refering to the first report from Activion only a few months after release (similar to this point after Black Op's release). In that view 1.6 million for Black Ops doesn't make sense.

PC gamers don't go to steam to buy Call of Duty, they buy all these other hundreds of games.