Or the stock prices are following the market trends in general.  I don't disagree with the general statement you discuss, but you are not looking at the larger picture.,(reply>), @Chris Marksberry <br>The market right now is what a lot consider "dead cat bounce".  You cannot attribute a singles days gains to trends.  There is a lot of uncertainty, tread carefully.<br>Steam does their own thing as they are more of a host then a developer, and good for them.  Apple, Oil and a lot of others gained value back today but is this fear driven or actual value.,(reply>), @Joel F  you say this but DOW and most SP500 just went like 1k up today alone and the gaming community still went down.  In the last 6 months Steam has broken record upon record for game and monetary returns on big name games... Biggets game of the year? Fortnite. Why?  cause 1 its free, 2 it was innovative, 3 no pay to play; No pay to win; NO paid DLC; No loot boxes .   The biggest games on Esports.... All games who don't have Pay to win functions... Fortnite, Overwatch,  LoL.  Make their money on Skins and cosmetics.,(reply>), @Murcia doxial <br>Uncertainty in the market has gone across the board this is because the markets and traders love stability.  This year has obviously been filled with turmoil, not just the trade war but a lot of economists saying for 6 months we are heading into a recession because of key factors.  The fed increasing the interest rates, starts making consumers think twice about opening their wallets.  <br>AAA developers are releasing copy/paste titles like Madden for example.  What is different from 18 over 17 and why should someone plunk down $60 for new lens flare.<br>Large companies make money off their titles but are also heavily invested elsewhere to diversify their portfolio that to feeds into their earnings forecast.  For all we know some of these companies invested in NVidia because of Bitcoin miners scooping up on their video cards.,(reply>), Here is the thing... The stock market drop is not as pronounced as the one happening to hte videogame market exclusively, yes, the stocks for everything are falling, but the videogame industry was booming while the rest of the world was starting to slow down, so the bigger picture is not as good of a tool to understand this as you would expect, it helps, but is not as big of a reason.<br><br>Now, if the economic war with china hit hte videogame market directly, then we would see a direct correlation between the stock market drop and the AAA crash