Epic Games seems to understand that, given the lead Steam had and its massive current user-base, the only way it can be a viable competitor is to have games that you can’t play on Steam–at least for a period of time. Exclusivity deals with third-party companies cost money, and it looks like Epic Games is losing a huge amount of money to make those exclusives happen. However, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney doesn’t seem remotely worried about this. In fact, he seems pretty proud of it.
As spotted by PC Gamer, despite paying approximately $444 million for “minimum guarantees” on third-party games for the Epic Games Store in 2020, sales of all third-party games for the year amounted to about $265 million. Apple said that Epic Games lost about $181 million on the Epic Games Store in 2019, putting the total losses thus far at more than $300 million, should these figures be correct Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Big games like Metro Exodus and Control were released first on EGS before coming to Steam later. At the time, especially with Metro, the respective game companies were criticized for this decision. Since then, it has become a fairly common practice.