{"id":9845,"date":"2011-02-04T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"steam-s-top-ten-selling-games-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/9845-steam-s-top-ten-selling-games-of-2010","title":{"rendered":"Steam's top ten selling games of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Analyst firm Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE<\/a>) has revealed that Valve’s PC digital distribution platform garnered strong sales in 2010, estimated just short of US$1 billion over the course of the year.<\/p>\n

Revenues were estimated at US$970 million (±R7,044 billion) in 2010, with December capping off the year with an estimated US$213 million (±R1,547 billion).<\/p>\n

Valve took a back seat during the year, emerging as the third largest publisher on Steam, bringing in an estimated US$80 million (±R581 million) in revenues, mostly from its 2009 release – ‘Left 4 Dead 2.’ However, Valve sold the most titles of all publishers operating through Steam – Valve published 7 of the top 10 titles when the data is ordered by ‘units sold.’<\/p>\n

Director of Research and Analysis at FADE, Benjamin Schlichter, stated, “Steam’s growth has been remarkable during the year. Over 180 titles were estimated reaching over $1 million USD in revenue for the year, painting a very healthy market for developers and publishers, with more room for growth in the future.”<\/p>\n

And you thought PC gaming was dying.<\/p>\n

Call of Duty franchise dominates 2010 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Mirroring its console successes, the ‘Call of Duty’ franchise saw great sales through the Steam platform, with ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ and ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’ taking 1st and 2nd place respectively in terms of gross revenues.<\/p>\n

During just 2 months on the market, Black Ops sold an estimated 1.6 million copies for just under US$100 million (±R726 million). Due to the popularity of the titles and expansion packs, Activision was the number 1 publisher on Steam in 2010, selling an estimated $153 million (±R1,111 billion) of content during the year. Other first person shooters saw great success as well, as 7 of the top 10 games were primarily of the format.<\/p>\n

Top 10 selling Steam titles in 2010 (Estimated Gross Revenues) – FADE<\/strong><\/p>\n

   1. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision) – $98.2 Million USD<\/p>\n

   2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision) – $39.4 Million USD<\/p>\n

   3. Left 4 Dead 2 (Valve) – $36.0 Million USD<\/p>\n

   4. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Electronic Arts) – $25.4 Million USD<\/p>\n

   5. Sid Meier’s Civilization V (2K Games) – $21.9 Million USD<\/p>\n

   6. Portal (Valve) – $20.0 Million USD<\/p>\n

   7. Fallout: New Vegas (Bethesda Softworks) – $17.0 Million USD<\/p>\n

   8. Metro 2033 (THQ) – $13.4 Million USD<\/p>\n

   9. Mafia II (2K Games) – $11.9 Million USD<\/p>\n

 10. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising (THQ) – $10.8 Million USD<\/p>\n

How many games from this list did you buy in 2010? <\/a><\/strong><< Share your views in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digital distribution on PC platform going from strength to strength as told by latest Steam sales analysis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}