Steam Game Release Pace Slowed in 2019 [Jan 07, 2020, 6:54 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
GamesIndustry.biz has some analysis of new game releases on Steam for 2019
based on data from sleuthy website
SteamSpy. While more games came out on Valve's store/service last
year than in 2018, they report a "major slowdown" of new
releases. They call this a change of pace, as they note the rate of new releases
increased "rapidly" each year starting in 2014. They also report the number of
new games owned is down significantly year on year, but caution that this is not
based on sales, just copies owned. Here are some figures:
Last year 8,415 games arrived on Steam, compared to 8,167 in 2018. With the number of games released on Steam rapidly increasing since 2014, this represents a notable change in pace.
The number of games released on the platform saw its first major leap in 2014, increasing to 1,609 from 557 the year prior. Since then, the number of games releasing on Steam has increased to nearly 2,000 a year.
The effect of this slowdown is seen throughout the data for 2019, most notably with the number of copies owned falling from 242 million in 2018 to 127 million in 2019.
SteamSpy is unable to provide precise sales data, but the number of copies owned "refers to total copies of games released this year acquired by users for the lifetime. Includes copies sold, downloaded for free and given out."
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Blue wrote on Jan 8, 2020, 09:08:jdreyer wrote on Jan 8, 2020, 02:14:Hoop wrote on Jan 7, 2020, 21:54:
They call this a change of pace, as they note the pace of new releases increased "rapidly"
We should feel relieved Wanking Simulator wasn't rubbed out.
Did that come out the way you wanted it to come out?
I'm pretty sure it did in his case. I on the other hand, somehow managed to post this story without proofreading it, and it originally looked like it was machine translated from three different languages. Apologies for that.
Heh, I was trying to make a double entendre on his comment about Wanking Sim.
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jdreyer wrote on Jan 8, 2020, 02:14:Hoop wrote on Jan 7, 2020, 21:54:
We should feel relieved Wanking Simulator wasn't rubbed out.
Did that come out the way you wanted it to come out?
That's what she said ! -
jdreyer wrote on Jan 8, 2020, 02:14:Hoop wrote on Jan 7, 2020, 21:54:
They call this a change of pace, as they note the pace of new releases increased "rapidly"
We should feel relieved Wanking Simulator wasn't rubbed out.
Did that come out the way you wanted it to come out?
I'm pretty sure it did in his case. I on the other hand, somehow managed to post this story without proofreading it, and it originally looked like it was machine translated from three different languages. Apologies for that.
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8,415 games, of which approximately 7,000 are low effort shovelware
We went from an average of 23 games released per day to an average of ~22 games released per day. Sure it is less games each day, but is it really that noticable in the grand scheme of things?
Hoop wrote on Jan 7, 2020, 21:54:
They call this a change of pace, as they note the pace of new releases increased "rapidly"
We should feel relieved Wanking Simulator wasn't rubbed out.
Did that come out the way you wanted it to come out?
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
They call this a change of pace, as they note the pace of new releases increased "rapidly"
We should feel relieved Wanking Simulator wasn't rubbed out.
We should feel relieved Wanking Simulator wasn't rubbed out.
Um .. Behind you...
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