| mountaindewslave said: bear in mind revenue and profit are not the same thing. Sony has gigantic revenues across their whole company, but they've still be losing money on average. as another example, they had gigantic revenues in their video game division during the PS2 / PSP era yet lost money....... :/
don't be fooled by revenue. its gross. not profit. Granted you would assume they are making lots of money from network game sales as there is no costly distribution or complications, however Sony is probably losing money from the sale of their hardware among other things so it likely evens out. of course with the failing Wii U Nintendo's revenues can't compete, even with the popular PLaystation network. I would debate it is not really that valuable of a stat though. If you want to start comparing things and why its sort of irrelevant (the revenue), then compare what revenue Valve pulls in through Steam, it probably is much larger than the Playstation Network but, again, revenue doesn't necessarily have any relevance on profit or what money a company makes ironically Sony is a perfect example of this, as they pull in massive amounts of money through all of their electronic sectors but unfortunately after costs are accounted for have not been significantly profiting in a long long time. Sony may bring in wayyyy more money than Nintendo but it doesn't magically make them have much in the bank. They have a lot less than Nintendo saved and it speaks volumes for the importance of balancing your budget. Microsoft has tried the tactic of doing whatever it takes to sell their systems/games to force their precense into the gaming market for the last decade and have yet to ever make money from that division. Just because you create high revenues doesn't mean its a successful business. Just sort of parroting business 101 here, but people tend to post numbers on threads on sites like this without actually analyzing them. a big number is nothing if your backend costs are too high |
I Don't remember well, but i saw a Articlce who said that Valve, had 1.5 Billions of Revennue from Steam, this are 2014 Numbers, this is how much Valve, got from Revenue, this isn't Steam's Total, but Valve, got 250 Millions of Revenue from Dota's Microtransactions, so is 1.2 Billions without this, 1.2 Billions is 30% of the Total Paid games on Steam, i think that Include DLC, but does not include Microtransactions, Steam's Total Revenue must be 4-4.5 Billions, nearly the same as Nintendo, and the Same as PSN, but is aways growing and those data are from 2014.
It is hard to know Valve's Numbers because is a private company, but Valve isn't making so much Money like people thing, they have a hight Profit Margin, but from the 25-28 Billions of US$ of the PC Market, Majority go for games like RuneScape, League of Legends, Bllizard's Games, MMORPG, or Mobas.
Valve is the biggest Digital Store of the PC Market, but the games that give the Biggest Revenue for PC, does not need a Digital Store.
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