Tomorrow, Valve appeared Its annual “Steam Year Review” Blog Post, a former proportion of the addition of steam feature from 2024 and highlighting customer data trends. Calling 2024 “One Year of Development”, “Valve said that the number of steam harmony is doubled, which was in March 2020 – and last year, all those users were playing more new games than ever before.
“2024 was the best year of steam platform so far in the case of consumers who buy the newly released games,” said Valve. In 2024, the new release revenue on Steam, which the valve describes as a sales income for the first 30 days after the release of a product And Any purchase was ten times higher than in 2014. More than 500 sports earned more than $ 250,000 in new release sales, of which more than 200 people earned more than 1 million millions.
The valve also provided a chart (see above) shows a permanent increase in annual release revenue since 2017.
What chart Does not Including, however, there is no labeling to identify what these tax data was actually. And without data or bars that indicate sales income from sports Out Their new release window, this is an incomplete picture. If direct service game revenue increased even more percentage, for example, the sale of more new release than them would have been calculated in reality of steam revenue.
Valve publishes the annual List of Steam’s biggest earningsAnd 2024’s advanced new sports that we know are successful films: Palvards, Helders 2, Space Marine 2, Black Meth Wokong. But there are also usual suspects: Dota 2, Anti -Strike 2, Apex Legends, Pubg. And although this is technically a new release, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 rarely feels like we have obtained a new code every year for the past 20 years, and now they have been bundered to a call off duty launcher.
Nevertheless, the trend of increasing the new release revenue provides some additional context for cooling disclosure during last year’s steam replay that only 15 % of the consumer game time was spent on sports released in 2024. The more it may seem unpleasant, it has actually increased to 2023, where only 9 % of sports in sports this year were done. (It is less than 17 % in 2022, though.
At the end of last year, we predicted that the sports industry is a lure to read this trend as proof of shift, where the continuous wire of direct services closure – such as recently announced spectrum division shuttering – Berings at the end of the end of the game for the next forever. But many new games on the list of the best sellers of 2024 steam, such as Throne and Liberty, first offspring, and once humans, are still chasing the same purpose. According to the valve’s definition, the first 30 days of micro -transaction sales will be revenue for new release.
Without a more comprehensive dataset, we cannot say that the increasing revenue of the new release indicates the upcoming maritime change or if the water is running with the same maize.
