Bring the Steam deck to Latinamerica

[Robin (Don Quijote)]

Wanna play the newest and my favourite games while eating tacos

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

When Valve finds a partner to deal with your region, they'll let everyone know.

[Pierce Dalton]

Diposting pertama kali oleh cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

When Valve finds a partner to deal with your region, they'll let everyone know.

:qr:

They don't need a partner, though. Valve has more than enough resources to set up its own production and distribution center.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

Diposting pertama kali oleh cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

When Valve finds a partner to deal with your region, they'll let everyone know.

:qr:

They don't need a partner, though. Valve has more than enough resources to set up its own production and distribution center.

Oh, you're privy to their finances and current international relations?

[Brian9824]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

Diposting pertama kali oleh cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

When Valve finds a partner to deal with your region, they'll let everyone know.

:qr:

They don't need a partner, though. Valve has more than enough resources to set up its own production and distribution center.

They have the money, but it makes very little sense to invest the capital required in setting up the infrastructure for something that is not their primary business. Its far more cost effective to partner like they have in the past with gamestop for instance and use their Distibution versus creating the infrastructure for a single product...

Basic business sense really.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh brian9824:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

They don't need a partner, though. Valve has more than enough resources to set up its own production and distribution center.

They have the money, but it makes very little sense to invest the capital required in setting up the infrastructure for something that is not their primary business. Its far more cost effective to partner like they have in the past with gamestop for instance and use their Distibution versus creating the infrastructure for a single product...

Basic business sense really.

Not to mention how completely unstable the economy is in those countries.

[Pierce Dalton]

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

They don't need a partner, though. Valve has more than enough resources to set up its own production and distribution center.

Oh, you're privy to their finances and current international relations?

Their revenue is public:

https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/07/26/steam-games-revenue-3-1-billion-2022-recession-vg-insights

Bringing up "international relations" is pointless, various countries would welcome a big company that will pay a lot of taxes. Sometimes, countries (or states) even fight for them.

[Pierce Dalton]

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Diposting pertama kali oleh brian9824:

They have the money, but it makes very little sense to invest the capital required in setting up the infrastructure for something that is not their primary business. Its far more cost effective to partner like they have in the past with gamestop for instance and use their Distibution versus creating the infrastructure for a single product...

Basic business sense really.

Not to mention how completely unstable the economy is in those countries.

It's also unstable in various European countries. Sometimes, even more.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Oh, you're privy to their finances and current international relations?

Their revenue is public:

https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/07/26/steam-games-revenue-3-1-billion-2022-recession-vg-insights

Bringing up "international relations" is pointless, various countries would welcome a big company that will pay a lot of taxes. Sometimes, countries (or states) even fight for them.

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VG Insights uses both 3rd party data sources as well as primary research for its database. Due to the large 3rd party datasets we are unable to guarantee complete accuracy of all datapoints, but do our best to fix and improve the data as and when discrepancies are highlighted
.
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Steam API - List of over 50k games, their price points, reviews, genre and numerous other datapoints.
IGDB API - List of over 130k games, detailed categorisation, average play times and numerous other datapoints.

Except that isn't Steam reporting it(they are a private company so they don't publicly release those reports) it's an educated guess based on 3rd party sources.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Not to mention how completely unstable the economy is in those countries.

It's also unstable in various European countries. Sometimes, even more.

Which of those unstable countries is it officially released in?

[Pierce Dalton]

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

Their revenue is public:

https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/07/26/steam-games-revenue-3-1-billion-2022-recession-vg-insights

Bringing up "international relations" is pointless, various countries would welcome a big company that will pay a lot of taxes. Sometimes, countries (or states) even fight for them.

About Video Game Insights

VG Insights uses both 3rd party data sources as well as primary research for its database. Due to the large 3rd party datasets we are unable to guarantee complete accuracy of all datapoints, but do our best to fix and improve the data as and when discrepancies are highlighted
.
3rd party sources

Steam API - List of over 50k games, their price points, reviews, genre and numerous other datapoints.
IGDB API - List of over 130k games, detailed categorisation, average play times and numerous other datapoints.

Except that isn't Steam reporting it(they are a private company so they don't publicly release those reports) it's an educated guess based on 3rd party sources.

If you want some accuracy you can always see what games sold more per year and do the math.

[Brian9824]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Oh, you're privy to their finances and current international relations?

Their revenue is public:

https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/07/26/steam-games-revenue-3-1-billion-2022-recession-vg-insights

Bringing up "international relations" is pointless, various countries would welcome a big company that will pay a lot of taxes. Sometimes, countries (or states) even fight for them.

Revenue isn't profit, you can have a trillion dollars in revenue and be doing poorly if your spending more then your making, just look at the EPIC game store for instance.....

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Not to mention how completely unstable the economy is in those countries.

It's also unstable in various European countries. Sometimes, even more.

Yeah but the vast majority of the European countries are stable, so having a distribution center in Europe lets you hit up all those stable countries, unlike in Latin America where the entire country is unstable. Not to mention it gives them a better staging point to distribute to the asian markets.

Of course thats also ignoring that Latin America as a market for steam is pitiful, while Europe is one of their largest markets. Hence why it makes no sense to set up a distribution center in Latin America....

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Except that isn't Steam reporting it(they are a private company so they don't publicly release those reports) it's an educated guess based on 3rd party sources.

If you want some accuracy you can always see what games sold more per year and do the math.

That's.....that's essentially what they did...

[Pierce Dalton]

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

It's also unstable in various European countries. Sometimes, even more.

Which of those unstable countries is it officially released in?

UK is the best example, their economy/currency has been highly unstable. Apparently, you're unaware that not all members of the EU have adopted the Euro, and that doesn't apply only to the UK.

[white but not quite]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Which of those unstable countries is it officially released in?

UK is the best example, their economy/currency has been highly unstable. Apparently, you're unaware that not all members of the EU have adopted the Euro, and that doesn't apply only to the UK.

they left

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pierce Dalton:

Diposting pertama kali oleh KittenGrindr:

Which of those unstable countries is it officially released in?

UK is the best example, their economy/currency has been highly unstable. Apparently, you're unaware that not all members of the EU have adopted the Euro, and that doesn't apply only to the UK.

The UK's economy is not unstable....

As someone else mentioned, having a center in the EU opens up all stable economies.