Back in 2023, a court ordered Valve chief Gabe Newell to testify, in person, in the long-running antitrust suit filed by Wolfire Games in 2021. A new report by Bloomberg runs down some of what Newell had to say during that testimony, including a denial that Steam holds any kind of monopoly on PC gaming. Or is even an overly dominant force.
"Customers have enormous choice" about where they purchase their games, Newell testified, including "whether they buy the game on an Xbox, whether they buy it on Steam, whether they buy it on Epic Games Store or whether they buy it directly from software developers."
