Valve recently presented his retrospective on 2020, in which he deals with the statistics and the achievements obtained in the past year. A good opportunity to flex your muscles as a company and that with its digital distribution platform Steam, has achieved remarkable results by overcoming the threshold of 120 million monthly active players. We are talking about a result of a certain weight, which when compared with those presented by the competition are even more remarkable. Xbox Live, the system Microsoft products, in fact, it has reached 90 million users at the same time, while Sony, with its Playstation Network, reached the share of 102 million active users in one month.
In the opinion of Valve, these great results obtained in recent months are due to various factors, first of all that of the pandemic that has forced many people to remain indoors. The retrospective reports:
As people started staying at home video game play time increased, dramatically increasing the number of customers who bought and played.,
As a further motivation put forward by Valve to the significant increase in users of its platform, the numerous discount sessions of the proprietary store and the use of dedicated events that have helped to keep the attention of players such as Steam Game Festival he Steam Awards.
In this regard, we cannot fail to mention a 21,4% increase in digital purchases on the platform compared to 2019, the peaks up to 24.4 million active players at the same time and the frightening tally of 31.3 billion cumulative hours spent by players around the world. Results that prompted the company to think about the future as well, with the promise for 2021 to focus the study on various issues such as a more intuitive management of purchases on the store, improvements in the management of mobile functions and the management of account security. In addition to this, it will also be expanded Points store to allow even players who are less interested in the functionality of the Steam Community to obtain some advantages.
