eleijeep comments on Sony Reportedly Made Over $1 Billion Through Sales On Steam [est. $1.2B for Sony, ~$350M for Valve]

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

This $1.2b in Steam sales is cumulative since around August 2020, so a period of just over 5 years. We can say $240m per year on average.

Their last annual financial statement said that they made $2.8b profit for the year ending March 2025 from their "Games and Network Services" division, so subtracting the ~$240m of Steam sales would leave about $2.56b from PS5 and PSN sales.

That's about 90% PS to 10% Steam. It's a nice extra market for them, but it's not make or break.

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Money is money. Especially if its only porting over an existing game, that does not require too much money for, as it is in an engine made for this anyway. And it shows there is potential for grows. I don't know about the numbers you just throw in, and how it compares in reality. So not commenting on that. Also the GAmes and Network Services, are these only Sony releases or are there third party games included?

But what we do know is, that some games like Helldivers 2 are far more successful than some other games they have. If the games were put day one on Steam besides the Playstation release, and without requiring Playstation account on first day, it would probably have made more money.

I wouldn't dismiss this as just "nice extra market". Otherwise why would Sony give up the exclusivity of their first party titles? Steam grows rapidly and is already bigger than the Playstation 5 user base will ever be.

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