The Battle Royale genre reaches $ 20 billion in revenue in 2019, according to a study

The gaming market in the style Royal Battle must be more than billionaire next year. A new report from the Statist, a digital marketplace survey site, points out that the genre market is expected to be $ 20.1 billion.

Highlighted in 2013 with the phenomenon The PlayerUnknown Battlefields This is a game with mechanics similar to the movie Hunger Games . A hundred players fall from parachutes on an island and have to fight each other until only one wins the winner. Without a deep story to justify the battle (as in the film cited), in the games Royal Battle which gives taste to the gameplay, it is that players need to seek weapons, equipment and shelters

PUBG so successful that others soon looked for their versions of the game. Fortnite is the best known name, and today , the most played title of its kind. According to a study by SuperData Research, Fortnite, only, has already reached $ 1 billion this year.

The estimate for 2017, also by SuperData, is that the market receives $ 12.6 billion of games containing at least one mode in Royal Battle.

Popularization

What is the genre that is currently so popular?

What is the genre so popular nowadays? One of the trampolines of the Royal Battle was the producer of streaming content, both on YouTube and Twitch. With 20 million simultaneous players recorded on Steam at the end of 2017, most streamers rushed to embrace the idea.

In April of this year, Tyler Blevins, known as Ninja, broke his own record of viewers. playing Fortnite. The streamer hit the mark of 667,000 people at the same time on a show. The previous record was also his, with 637 thousand people, when he invited rapper Drake to a match.

The first simultaneous location of Twitter is also from Fornite. Last March, Rubén Doblas Gundersen had more than 42 million views and a record of Live with 1.1 million viewers. The influencer still invited 100 youtubers for a match of the game.

Another success factor was the arrival of versions of these titles for mobile platforms. Launched in March this year, Fortnite's iOS version reached $ 15 million in just 20 days. According to Sensor Tower's badysis, the amount collected by Epic Games rose to $ 10.5 million, removing the portion of the App Store.

Future

As the Statist estimates show, the genre market should have a bigger share for consoles next year, to the detriment of this year's mobile. This is because the major franchises have already promised to enter the game, which should get a lot of the games audience with one of them. is Call of Duty: Black Operations 4 . The franchise has been at the top of the best selling games of the year for years and should not be different now. The title produced by Treyarch and released by Activision is with its planned launch for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on Oct. 12. The companies have already announced that the Royal Battle Mode will be an essential part of the game, but has not yet revealed details.