Steam has introduced additional tools for analyzing game sales
Valve has expanded the analytics capabilities in Steam, enabling developers to study game sales more comprehensively.
The company announced that new interactive charts showing daily sales and revenue figures are now available on the Sales & Activations Reports pages in the Package Details section. Valve has also added a section on the effectiveness of discounts in their reporting.
Moreover, the charts now include a filter that allows users to view separate sales statistics for games sold at full price and at discounted prices.
In its announcement, Valve noted that technically all these data were available before—via the IPartnerFinancialsService API. However, now they are directly accessible on the platform, eliminating the need for developers to use the API and their own analytical systems.
“We hope the new tools will help understand which sales and discount strategies for games on Steam work best,” Valve added.