Microsoft estimated Valve’s revenue in 2021 at $6.5bn Interesting to see another view on the scale of Valve’s business

The really impressive thing about Valve is the amount of revenue they make with a relatively small head count. They have about 1/10 the number of employees as EA.

Seems about right. They don't have a complete monopoly and the industry seems to be making most of their money off micro-transactions these days instead of sales, something valve takes no cut of outside there own games. Meanwhile apple and google do have monopolies and take a cut of micro-transactions which accounts for there significantly larger revenue.

It might be. It's hard to know since Valve isn't a public company, so it's all estimations and guesses.

That number is shockingly low due to how prevent they are. They don't really have any competition on the PC market aside from the Epic Games store which is only used for exclusives by most.

Apple’s total revenue was almost $400B in 2022. I think App Store revenue was $36B. So this must be just games.

Has to be. There's no way the owners of the biggest storefront for pc gaming makes as much as EA.