Wargame: Airland Battle trailer details dynamic campaign
Halo 'Bootcamp' confirmed by Microsoft
Weekend PC download deals: Tomb Raider for $14
Game Dev Tycoon studio outlines future plans
Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced already has 350,000 words of new content
Valve Reveals Lifetime Retail Sales of Half-Life, Counter-Strike Series
by Chris Faylor, Dec 03, 2008 9:58am PSTBeloved developer Valve has released lifetime retail sales figures for some of its more popular games, including the Half-Life and Counter-Strike series, revealing that the studio has sold over 32.8 million games since the 1998 release of the first Half-Life.
Sales from Valve's digital distribution client are not factored in, with the figures only accounting for worldwide retail sales. With Half-Life 2, Valve began simultaneously releasing all of its PC games at retail and via Steam. The numbers were originally printed in the November issue of Game Informer, then republished by Gamasutra.
Furthermore, it was not specified if the figures of multiplatform games--Half-Life, Half-Life 2, The Orange Box--included both PC and console sales, or just PC.
- Half-Life (Valve) / 1998 - 9.3 Million
- Half-Life: Opposing Force (PC, Gearbox) / 1999 - 1.1 Million
- Half-Life: Blue Shift (PC, Gearbox) / 2001 - 800,000
- Counter-Strike (PC, Valve) / 2000 - 4.2 Million
- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (PC, Valve) / 2004 - 2.9 Million
- Counter Strike: Source (PC, Valve) / 2006 - 2.1 Million
- Counter-Strike (Xbox, Valve) / 2003 - 1.5 Million
- Half-Life 2 (Valve) / 2004 - 6.5 Million
- Half-Life 2: Episode One (PC, Valve) / 2006 - 1.4 Million
- The Orange Box (Valve) / 2007 - 3 Million
(Half-Life 2 HL2: Episode One, HL2: Episode Two, Portal, Team Fortress 2)
Comments
-Groundwork for IPO?
-Generating interest for majority stake sale of Steam, even Valve?
-Totally shits and giggles, look at our money hats?
Gabe and crew are devious, they don't seem to do anything without a reason. Maybe they see a huge opportunity with several giants failing to get a foothold in the PC digital distribution / social space. These giants being Microsoft, Google, and Electronic Arts, all companies who desperately need to develop strategies in this area very quickly before the other, therefore there is a high value on Steam as-is.
Or perhaps it's not an all-out firesale, maybe they would like the sell off a pieces of the company for lots of dollars seeing how valuable Steam could be in the current environment to the giants. Maybe it's groundwork to sell a minority, but large % of the company, or an all-out sale of Steam. It'd be very expensive.
There is also a very high likely hood none of that is plausible at all! Valve could just be like, "Hey everyone, we have money hats! We make awesome stuff and are successful. We are capitalizing on the media spotlight behind Garry slipping his numbers in his personal blog earlier in the week now that L4D is out and we are low on marketing blurbs until the Episode 3."
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 32 replies.
You must be logged in to post.