Microsoft Allegedly Intends to Acquire Valve Corporation

TapTechNews May 23rd news, the tweet released by the source @xDiorCS yesterday began to go viral on the Internet, and many mainstream game media also followed up and reported, revealing that Microsoft intends to acquire Valve Corporation at a price of 16 billion US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 116 billion Chinese yuan), and the latter is renowned in the industry with the Steam game platform, games such as and .

Gabe Newell (usually known as G Fat by players) currently holds the majority of Valve Corporation's shares, but the specific proportion is still unknown.

TapTechNews also noticed in this tweet that @xDiorCS supplemented a report from the gamesradar media in September 2023, which disclosed a court document showing that the Xbox helmsman Phil Spencer intended to acquire Nintendo and Valve Corporation.

@xDiorCS said that at this stage there is no officially confirmed news, only a leaked document from many years ago showing that Microsoft is interested in acquiring Valve and asking if Valve would accept it.

For Microsoft, if the acquisition can really be achieved, the potential benefits include expanding its market coverage, strengthening its GamePass subscription service, and possibly entering the handheld computer market through Valve's SteamDeck.

The game media altchar believes that this news source is unknown, and @xDiorCS has no relevant exposure records before, and given the regulatory challenges encountered in Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the possibility of acquiring Valve is not very big.