Valve Publishes Lifetime Sales Figures for Gaming Tiles
By Stephany on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 8:44 AM PST In Computer, Gamer Life, Games, Games Industry, Half-Life, Microsoft, Valve
Valve has always had pretty popular games, and if their recent release of sales figures over the past ten years are any indication of the company’ success, well then they will have nothing to worry about for a very long time. Well, that’s barring some unforeseen gaming or spending catastrophe like a Superman 64 or a very bad heroine addiction.
Here are the numbers reported to Game Informer, then posted on Gamasutra and broken down in a pretty list by VG247:
- Half-Life – 9.3 million
- Half-Life: Opposing Force – 1.1 million
- Half-Life: Blue Shift – 800,000
- Half-Life 2 – 6.5 million
- Half-Life 2: Episode One – 1.4 million
- The Orange Box – 3 million
- Counter-Strike – 4.2 million
- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero – 2.9 million
- Counter-Strike: Source – 2.1 million
- Counter-Strike (Xbox) – 1.5 million
- Left 4 Dead (projected) – 3.6 – 3.9 million
The figures add up to a total retail amount of 32.8 million and if you include the projected Left 4 Dead numbers, it increases to 36.4 – 36.7 million. These figures also do not include digital sales of their products through Steam, which Valve is currently keeping under wraps for some reason or another. Be that as it may, the numbers speak for themselves, and whether you are a Valve fan or not, they are nothing to sneeze at by any means.


Not surprising to see such high numbers. Valve and Blizzard = PC Gaming.
@Reverend Sharad: Why do you think PC gaming is dead?