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Meta has 30x? 100x?, 300x? the resources of Valve. I'm not routing for Meta but it seems unlikely Valve can out do Meta.
by pronlover723 5y ago
Meta has 30x? 100x?, 300x? the resources of Valve. I'm not routing for Meta but it seems unlikely Valve can out do Meta.
- SkyMarshal 5y agoValve has the best immersive PC gaming platform in the world (eg not things like Farmville, but games pushing the limits of immersive 3D tech). The only real competitors to Steam are consoles. Games have traditionally been the main driver of home PC hardware, so I wouldn't count Valve out easily.
- onion2k 5y agoValve has the best immersive PC gaming platform in the world... Facebook cannot do VR based on games. It wouldn't bring in enough money to sustain it. They're going after a much bigger market. The entire global PC gaming market was worth $42b in 2019. It's up a bit since then, but not by much[1]. That's equivalent to about 5 months of Facebook's revenue[2]. In other words, in terms of revenue, Facebook is double the size of the entire PC gaming market. It doesn't really matter how good or how big Valve are. They're a big fish in a small pond compared to Facebook. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/292516/pc-online-game-market-value-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/292516/pc-online-game-ma... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/technology/facebook-profits-earnings-q3-2021.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/technology/facebook-profi...
- findthewords 5y agoWhen it comes to engineering talent, I wouldn't be so sure. Steam is also among the biggest marketing platforms, especially for early adopter gamers.
- baby 5y agoYou mean the platform where you could change the password of any user account by going through account recovery and leaving the password blank? (That was exploitable for many years)