Fortnite, the global phenomenon that explodes the video game market

The name Fortnite: Battle Royale has become a must-see, not only in player circles, but also in the media, social networks and everyday conversations. The video game developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly sees its popularity grow – and its profits –

According to Bloomberg figures, thanks to Fortnite Epic Games is currently valued between $ 5,000 and $ 8,000 million, and is that projections point to the Battle Royale close this 2018 with revenues exceeding $ 2 billion, a real madness.

Fornite-Mania

According to SuperData Research, between September 2017 and May 2018, Fortnite generated a turnover of $ 1.2 billion and a base of 125 million active players in early June.

On July 13, a day after the launch of Season 5, Fortnite had his best day generating $ 3 million, that day, breaking the record he had imposed on May 1st. , $ 9 million after the arrival of season 4.

Until today, the players of Fortnite have spent more than $ 150 million in the 50% more in just one month

A LendEDU study suggests that 7 out of 10 players spent more than $ 80 on cosmetic improvements for their warriors.

In the beginning, Fortnite was a mere survival (survival-based genre), in a future where 98% of the human population disappeared. The player, in cooperation, must protect a base of humanoids similar to zombies (called hulls). This game mode calls Save the world – save the world, in Spanish –

However, the success of PlayerUnknown battlefields, known as PUBG, a royal fighting game Epic Games will consider to release a similar game mode for Fortnite

The Battle Royale genre is based on mbad battles, either in teams or alone, in which a hundred players are parachuted on an island and some to others until that time. that it remains more than one. The name of this game mode comes from the homonymous movie of the year 2000 and has been used in other sagas as in The Hunger Games

Thus was born Fortnite: Battle Royale, which in the end , was not a game mode of the original title, but an independent game that had an additional element that ended up marking his identity: the construction.

Each player has the ability to build and destroy structures on the stage to access or use parts of the terrain. in combat. For this you must go accumulate materials (wood, metal and rock) when you browse the map.

The new game mode was released in September 2017 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and computers, Windows and macOS. It came to iOS in April and Nintendo Switch in June of this year. Epic Games has already announced that it will be available for Android in the coming months.