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Gameguru Mania News - Jun,03 2008 -

Valve : Steam overtaking retail - briefly
(hx) 11:45 PM CEST - Jun,03 2008 - Post a comment / read (1)
Following the announcement of their free Steam Cloud service, Valve head honcho Gabe Newell spoke about the confidence he had in the Steam service overtaking retail in sales. Gabe Newell said that online PC sales revenue has seen massive growth rates and will soon pass over retail revenue. "Within the next three months we see sub-10% growth rates in our traditional core packaged goods retail business," said Newell. "But right now we're seeing close to 200% growth in the development of these alternative ways of connecting with customers." Newell added that the company expects online distribution sales from its Steam platform to pass over its retail business. A graph was also shown illustrating that the company anticipates online revenue to dwarf retail by 2012.

In addition to believing that Steam will boost industry sales as a whole, Newell also believes the service has prevented -- and will continue to prevent -- a great deal of PC software piracy. "We've got great facilities that make it very hard for people to pirate ... It's a dangerous thing to pirate one of our games because later on, when we catch you, you lose all your games, or you can't play multiplayer."

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Sabot

(02:45 PM CEST - Jun,04 2008 )

Pretty sad thing to boast about that Steam-whatever has/or will overtake retail. I mean how can you boast about digital downloads? It's purely oportunists that buy the odd 'cheap' title on STEAM and that chucked together with lower mainsteam title sales means everything is rosey in Gabe's eyes? How petty do you want to get.....
It's *physical* sales we need to boast about for the PC, that show's how healthy it is.
The fact that someone gets up off their ass and buys a copy from a shop is what we (as PC owners) want to hear. How else does several MILLION copies of GTA4 get onto peoples consoles? They BUY IT FROM A SHOP!!
MGS4 will eclipse probably everything sold on STEAM.

All this proves -through Gabe's childish boast- is that, once again, PC sales are **PATHETIC**. "Oh the machine is better than consoles, oh it has a keyboard and mouse" Sooooo, why does the talk not match the sales of games then???
If Console game sales were digital, then it wouldn't be surprising to see sales into the BILLION mark.
Steam? Yeah nothing buts clouds of it! :lol:

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