Steam Brings in Nearly $1 Billion in Revenues in 2010

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Don86 said:

mrstickball said:

Don86 said:

shio said:

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).

No offense but..why would valve purposely hide the real numbers?

Shouldn't it be good news for the PC gaming industry developers and everyone else to know that DD is the future for pc gaming?

...Its because most distributors can't.

Sales data are protected by NDAs between the publisher, the platform, and the distributor. Therefore, Valve would have to break over 200 NDA's signed by the various publishers in order to give out any sort of sales data. The individual publishers/developers can, and sometimes do, but if Valve does it, it would invite lawsuits that Valve doesn't need.

There's also good chance that a big part of the profits comes from secrecy agreement that they had with the other respective companies IMHO

Partially, yes. If they did reveal the data, they may be in breach of the agreement, therefore could lose money on a lawsuit, or some sort of compensatory agreement.