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How successful was the Steam Summer Sale?

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Just Gaben crying some dollar bills

It’s no secret that any sale Valve throws moves millions of units and rakes in tons of cash. Ever wondered what the specific numbers look like though? Wonder no more… Steam Spy has shared some statistics on the recent Steam Summer sale and, well, no wonder Gabe has dollar bills spilling out of his eyes!

Here’s an overview from Steam Spy’s Summer Sale statistics page (via Polygon):

Actual number of total copies sold during the sale is bigger than shown below, because many games sold less than 5,000 copies and weren’t accounted for!

 

Actual revenue might be vastly different from what is shown because:

1) There are many ways to obtain a game outside Steam;

2) Some games are sold in bundles, but displayed here separately;
3) Prices vary a lot depending on the country the buyer is from.

 

Games in this stats: 1186
Average userscore: 81.98%
Average metascore: 76.11%
Total copies sold: 38,394,895
Total revenue: $241,145,111
Average price: $5.69
Average discount: 66.92%

Steam Spy say the actual revenue number may be different from what is shown, but what difference does a few million dollars make when you’re cashing in nearly a quarter of a billion? That is crazy!

Keep in mind that the revenue isn’t the money Valve pockets – it gets split between them and the developers. Still, that’s a staggering amount of total money made considering the sale only lasted 10 days!

Steam Spy have a further breakdown of how each individual game sold and how much revenue they made. Can you guess which game sold best? Here are the top 10:

O_O

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve’s very own shooter, now has almost 1 million extra people playing it. Total War titles also sold well, placing in 2nd and 3rd place. ARK, an indie title still in development, sold over 400,000 copies – those developers must be smiling from ear to ear!

As a matter of interest, I checked which game made the most revenue. It was Total War: Attila – pulling in $14,733,246! It “only” had a 33% discount, so it’s kind of surprising to see that it sold that well. Then again, ARK was discounted by 17%, and it sold well too.

There you have it. Valve made a lot of money, developers made a lot of money. Gamers? They got a bunch of new titles to add to their backlog. EVERYBODY WINS!

Last Updated: June 26, 2015

60 Comments

  1. BUT SALS AM BAD BECOZ DEVIL.. DEVAL… DAVEL… MAK GAMZ LES!

    LESS. NOT LES. NO GAY STUFF!

    Reply

    • RinceThis

      June 26, 2015 at 11:45

      Hands Trevor pills…

      Reply

      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        June 26, 2015 at 12:49

        I’m not crazy. They checked.

        Reply

  2. Skittle

    June 26, 2015 at 11:09

    Lets hope a lot of those new CS players are from SA

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    • Aries

      June 26, 2015 at 12:06

      Bought mine

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    • HairyEwok

      June 26, 2015 at 12:31

      Why? Yes the more players is good but if the servers can’t keep up like now then it’s futile

      Reply

  3. Jonah Cash

    June 26, 2015 at 11:10

    I didn’t buy 1 game, very proud of my first steam summer sale.

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      June 26, 2015 at 11:12

      Me neither, but then I went & bought Terra Nova & Trine 3 on GOG last night haha.

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      • Hammersteyn

        June 26, 2015 at 11:14

        I prefer GOG as well.

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      • Ottokie

        June 26, 2015 at 11:21

        Now I miss the Terra Nova series on tv…

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      • Jonah Cash

        June 26, 2015 at 11:21

        I still need to get Trine 3, but I first need to finish Witcher before I am buying anything else. With Witcher and Fifa my time is pretty much full.

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        • Trevor Matrix

          June 26, 2015 at 11:24

          You like playing with balls I take it?

          Reply

        • Aries

          June 26, 2015 at 12:06

          Never had time for Fifa in so long

          Reply

          • Jonah Cash

            June 26, 2015 at 13:34

            I still play pretty much daily. Destiny took over for 6 months but I am off it since the House of Wolves.

          • Aries

            June 26, 2015 at 13:40

            I run a BF4 clan now, never knew how much time it takes, every night I’m on teamspeak, got alot of new players, between matches, practices and the witcher, there almost no time for it

      • Thinus Swart

        June 26, 2015 at 11:26

        What??! There’s a Trine 3?!!

        *rips out wallet*

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        • Ottokie

          June 26, 2015 at 11:30

          On sale now at GOG for the next 5 days

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          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 11:34

            It’s Early Access. Just a forewarning.

          • Ottokie

            June 26, 2015 at 11:37

            At least we know the people behind it know what they are doing 😛

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 11:42

            You are correct. But some people don’t like the “Early Access” part.

          • Ottokie

            June 26, 2015 at 12:05

            I have no beef with early access, there is usually a big warning sign that tells you to watch out. So if I burn my fingers I don’t blame others.

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 12:08

            Agreed. I already have 1 Early Access game (development is taking a while, but they’re active at least). I knew what I bought when I bought it.

          • Ottokie

            June 26, 2015 at 12:09

            ARK is also Early Access but I’m loving it to bits, the developers are working fast and usually on a good day we get 3 patches.

          • Pariah

            June 26, 2015 at 12:16

            Yeah I’ve been hovering my finger over the buy button for that game since it was released into the wild. Looks so damn good.

          • Ottokie

            June 26, 2015 at 12:26

            Got a beefy 800mb patch today again containing some big performance improvements, that game is gonna be beautiful when its finally optimized.

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 26, 2015 at 12:27

            Still need to start my download

          • Ottokie

            June 26, 2015 at 12:30

            Yea me to, my cousin sent me a message this morning letting me know. Will fire up the download when I’m back from work.

          • Captain JJ Browmehn

            June 26, 2015 at 12:37

            I have a few MP game “meetings” to attend the weekend, so will be a while before I get into ARK decently

    • Admiral Chief's Adventure

      June 26, 2015 at 11:13

      Same here (and I’m a sales veteran)

      BOUGHT NOTHING, played Witcher and Planetside 2!

      Reply

    • Ottokie

      June 26, 2015 at 11:15

      I caved and bought Dragonball Xenoverse…trying very hard to save up the money for a new GPU and PS4

      Reply

    • Pariah

      June 26, 2015 at 11:15

      Glad I wasn’t the only one. Many of the games on my wishlist were on sale, but nothing said “buy me now”. So I didn’t.

      Reply

      • Aries

        June 26, 2015 at 12:05

        All my games on my wishlist was on sale, only bought 1

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    • Guild

      June 26, 2015 at 11:32

      My first one and I bought Max Payne 3, Witcher 1 and 2, One way Heroics, Don’t starve and XCOM collection 😛 all for about $31.14

      Reply

      • RinceThis

        June 26, 2015 at 11:46

        $31?! PAH! I spend that on DLC! 0_O

        Reply

      • Jonah Cash

        June 26, 2015 at 13:35

        Those are some long games! You will almost be sorted till the next summer sale 🙂

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    • VampyreSquirrel

      June 26, 2015 at 11:56

      Neither did I

      Reply

    • Captain JJ Browmehn

      June 26, 2015 at 12:26

      I bought 4.
      Gifted one
      Got one gifted to me.

      EDIT: Bought many DLCs (don’t judge me they were all around $1 each)

      Reply

  4. Admiral Chief's Adventure

    June 26, 2015 at 11:14

    I’m impressed with ARK’s sales!

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    • Pariah

      June 26, 2015 at 11:17

      I was tempted as all hell to buy that. But I plan on buying it with or without a sale anyway. Maybe end of this month, we’ll see.

      Reply

  5. Ottokie

    June 26, 2015 at 11:14

    ARK more than doubled its total sales. That is good news indeed, best indie/early access game I have played this year.

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  6. UltimateNinjaPandaDudeGuy

    June 26, 2015 at 11:14

    Finally bought GTA5 after finishing Witcher 3…

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      June 26, 2015 at 11:16

      W3 ends?! O_O SPOILER ALERT, DUDE!

      Reply

      • Admiral Chief's Adventure

        June 26, 2015 at 11:19

        LALALALALALLAAAAAAAAAAAAALLAALALALALALALAAAAAAA I CAN’T HEAR YOU LALALLALALALALALAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

        Reply

      • UltimateNinjaPandaDudeGuy

        June 26, 2015 at 11:20

        lol! Well I finished all the quests really… Finished all the challenge things. Leaving some ? there to go back to when I feel like it, but I feel like I have gotten all I will out of it for now. Probably going to start it again on the hardest difficulty or something.

        Reply

      • Mossel

        June 26, 2015 at 12:13

        He’s bluffing. It’s to make is believe there is life after W3.

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    • Hammersteyn

      June 26, 2015 at 11:18

      You’re playing it wrong 😛

      Reply

      • Admiral Chief's Adventure

        June 26, 2015 at 11:18

        ^This

        Reply

  7. Hammersteyn

    June 26, 2015 at 11:18

    • Greylingad[CNFRMD]

      June 26, 2015 at 11:19

      Whaa?!

      Reply

      • Hammersteyn

        June 26, 2015 at 11:20

        We’re all consumers. Watch the movie They Live with Rowdy Roddy Piper.

        Reply

        • Greylingad[CNFRMD]

          June 26, 2015 at 11:21

          Will do! But that image is quite…intriguing….

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          June 26, 2015 at 11:22

          😀

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          • Hammersteyn

            June 26, 2015 at 11:28

            Yes hahaha

    • Admiral Chief's Adventure

      June 26, 2015 at 11:19

      OBAMA?

      Reply

      • hairyknees

        June 26, 2015 at 11:30

        o MOBA? :O!

        Reply

  8. Kensei Seraph - Terran Ghost

    June 26, 2015 at 11:30

    I had no money to spend so I lost out.
    http://media1.giphy.com/media/BfID0O1Qwzf8I/giphy.gif

    Reply

  9. HvR

    June 26, 2015 at 11:32

    Credit Card companies and banks are making a lot of money

    Reply

    • Ottokie

      June 26, 2015 at 12:07

      And lets not forget about the money from people having to buy a new mouse thanks to this mini game

      Reply

  10. Captain JJ Browmehn

    June 26, 2015 at 12:25

    ARK was only 17% off and look how well it did!

    Reply

  11. sigma7

    July 2, 2015 at 10:28

    Good to see Total War ATTILA doing good.

    Reply

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