SWOT Analysis Report: Valve Corporation's Strengths and Weaknesses

This report presents a SWOT analysis of Valve Corporation, a prominent company in the video game industry. The analysis examines the company's strengths, such as its wide range of games and global market presence, and its weaknesses, including a limited number of original games and a relatively small workforce. The report also identifies opportunities for Valve, such as the potential to create new games and partner with other gaming companies, and threats like economic fluctuations and competition from other gaming firms. The SWOT analysis provides a comprehensive overview of Valve Corporation's position in the market, its competitive advantages, and the challenges it faces.

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SWOT ANALYSIS OF VALVE CORPORATION
Valve Corporation is a private company which operates in video game industry as well as
in digital distribution sector. Further, it offers products and services across the world and has a
great level of presence worldwide. The present report consists of SWOT analysis Valve
Corporation which reflects its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities as well as threats. The same
is stated as below:
Strengths
 It provides a wide range of games to
customers which is one of the key
points of attraction of Valve
Corporation.
 It offers products and services at cheap
prices.
 It has higher reputation in the eyes of
customers where they still think that
Valve Corporation is one of the best
gaming firm.
 It fulfils wants and requirements of
consumers properly.
 It has high level of market presence
across the globe (Grimdercell, 2013).
Weaknesses
 Valve corporation has very less or few
original games.
 Being a global firm, it has few
employees at the workplace.
 In the complicated or complex
situations, Valve Corporation is not
able to make proper solution
considering legal laws as seen in case
of Dota.
Opportunities
 Valve has an opportunity to produce
more and additional games.
 It can join with other companies of
gaming.
 Because of few employees, it has
chance to hire more workforce or staff.
Threats
 Fluctuations in economic conditions
like inflation, recession, interest rate,
etc.
 Threat of entering potential gaming
firms.
 Threat of reducing demand in the
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 Joint with other new gaming platforms.
 Another opportunity is to create high
level of brand image worldwide in
gaming sector.
future.
 Another threat is presence of various
competitors like 2K Games, Infinity
Ward, Capcom, EA Sports and
Treyarch
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REFERENCES
Grimdercell, (2013). Valve Corp. SWOT analysis. [Online]. Available through:
<https://forums.backpack.tf/index.php?/topic/5557-valve-corp-swot-analysis/>.
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