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well i have exactly 6 accounts so there now you know

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Most people have multiple Steam accounts? what on earth do you base that on? I don’t know anyone with multiple Steam accounts and I highly doubt most people have them.

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People bringing up the consoles are missing an important fact, Steam from the beginning has been playing catchup to Xbox live. Both as a distribution channel (games, patches, etc) and as a community software (friends lists, achivements). It probably never will though because the nature of pc games being open and not standardized means it’ll never have full integration into every piece of software on the system the way xbox live does.

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Those numbers are PHYSICAL consoles sold, and not counting wii.

I know. I was considering the fact that every one of those consoles sold is now online capable. Which is precisely why, if Microsoft and Sony wanted to, they could play the numbers games with that. Making the claims that there are 27 million active Live accounts and 21 million active PSN accounts. When we know that’s not going to be the case.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter. My main point still stands. Even if not everyone uses Steam on a regular basis: Valve’s user base rivals each console, easily.

And they probably haven’t even begun to tap their full market potential, yet. Even if a measly 1% of PCs in the entire world are up-to-date and capable enough to play Valve’s latest games, that’s 1% of billions.

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He’s not dismissive of the idea of selling, stating that as long as he is happy they won’t sell. I read that as saying the company has not reached it’s true potential (moneywize).

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“Feature-length” console games are still sold on discs, and they sells A LOT. It’s more like the traditional PC game sales mode. LIVE provides multiplayer experience (and other things), it does not generated major profits per se, but serves as an incentive to persuade people buy the games. (Actually LIVE does this well, dare I say- even more steamlined than Steam. It’s a major reason why 360 is doing better than PS3). A PC analog would be Blizzard’s Battle.net

LIVE does require US$50 a year if you want to do anything useful with it, which I assume is not too expensive since I’m a 20ish ordinary guy from China and i can afford it

And there is no online DRM on console, you can play a console for its lifetime without connect to ‘net once. Though I worry this may not be the case for future consoles… seen that everything goes online now.

I believe that as long as the business can break even, PC (or console, as it matters..) gaming won’t die, because people do not do everything for EPIC Moneyz, people do things for love, and people love games.

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“Feature-length” console games are still sold on discs, and they sells A LOT. It’s more like the traditional PC game sales mode. LIVE provides multiplayer experience (and other things), it does not generated major profits per se, but serves as an incentive to persuade people buy the games. (Actually LIVE does this well, dare I say- even more steamlined than Steam. It’s a major reason why 360 is doing better than PS3). A PC analog would be Blizzard’s Battle.net

LIVE does require US$50 a year if you want to do anything useful with it, which I assume is not too expensive since I’m a 20ish ordinary guy from China and i can afford it

And there is no online DRM on console, you can play a console for its lifetime without connect to ‘net once. Though I worry this may not be the case for future consoles… seen that everything goes online now.

I believe that as long as the business can break even, PC (or console, as it matters..) gaming won’t die, because people do not do everything for EPIC Moneyz, people do things for love, and people love games.

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