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Fortnite is still the king of the world, reporting a record number of competing players as recently as this month, but at least one recent statistic goes in the opposite direction.
Superdata reports Fortnite, after record sales in December, recorded a sharp 48% drop in revenue in January. And before you ask the question, no, this is not the time when Apex Legends came out, because it was only early February, so this new rival has nothing to do with it.
What happened here is not entirely clear. Yes, December is the holiday season, but it's more difficult for Fortnite than most games to enjoy the holiday buzz, as you do not exactly buy a box copy as a gift. Fortnite has certainly offered gifts and bundles for the holidays, but almost all is digital, which seems less inclined to explosive sales. Although you are giving money to a child for Christmas, and he will probably convert it to a Fortnite skin, I suppose.
The new battle package for season 7 was sold in December, not in January, so that could be part of it. Frankly, there may not have been so many essential skins sold in January, and I know most players were not particularly impressed by the ice storm that occurred this month, which was a bit like Halloween. a few months earlier.
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February could be different, however, Fortnite establishing simultaneous recordings of events for its Marshmello concert (10 million) and regular simultaneous recordings (7 million) indicating that the player base is going nowhere (the second simultaneous recording took place even after the publication of Apex). But last month may have prompted them to make the unusual decision to offer the season 8 free battle pass if players manage a handful of easy challenges in the game.
Giving the Season 8 Combat Pass means that players are A) more engaged in the game as they try to unlock content for free, and the most engaged players may be tempted to buy things at the store, and B) players with a combat pass may eventually purchase level boosters to ensure they reach level 100 if they can not resolve it manually.
I have to wonder what will be the image of the turnover during the launch month of Apex Legends. However, the biggest competitor Fortnite has had to face since his victory over PUBG has aggressively EA monetized by EA with a store, booty chests, characters to unlock and now a next Fortnite-like pass next month. I think it's too early to know if Apex will be a long-term threat to Fortnite, and I already see a lot of creators coming back to Fortnite, but we'll have to see.
The fact is that Fortnite is so huge that its revenue for 2019 could be a third of what it was in 2018 and it would still be … a billion dollars. We still have a long way to go before we start talking seriously about "the fall of Fortnite", given its success and success, even with declines.
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Fortnite is still the king of the world, reporting a record number of competing players as recently as this month, but at least one recent statistic goes in the opposite direction.
Superdata reports that Fortnite, after record sales in December, recorded a sharp 48% drop in revenue in January. And before you ask the question, no, this is not the time when Apex Legends came out, because it was only early February, so this new rival has nothing to do with it.
What happened here is not entirely clear. Yes, December is the holiday season, but it's more difficult for Fortnite than most games to enjoy the holiday buzz, as you do not exactly buy a box copy as a gift. Fortnite has certainly offered gifts and bundles for the holidays, but almost all is digital, which seems less inclined to explosive sales. Although you are giving money to a child for Christmas, and he will probably convert it to a Fortnite skin, I suppose.
The new battle package for season 7 was sold in December, not in January, so that could be part of it. Frankly, there may not have been so many essential skins sold in January, and I know most players were not particularly impressed by the ice storm that occurred this month, which was a bit like Halloween. a few months earlier.
February could be different, however, Fortnite establishing simultaneous recordings of events for its Marshmello concert (10 million) and regular simultaneous recordings (7 million) indicating that the player base is going nowhere (the second simultaneous recording took place even after the publication of Apex). But last month may have prompted them to make the unusual decision to offer the season 8 free battle pass if players manage a handful of easy challenges in the game.
Giving the Season 8 Combat Pass means that players are A) more engaged in the game as they try to unlock content for free, and the most engaged players may be tempted to buy things at the store, and B) players with a combat pass may eventually purchase level boosters to ensure they reach level 100 if they can not resolve it manually.
I have to wonder what will be the image of the turnover during the launch month of Apex Legends. However, the biggest competitor Fortnite has had to face since his victory over PUBG has aggressively EA monetized by EA with a store, booty chests, characters to unlock and now a next Fortnite-like pass next month. I think it's too early to know if Apex will be a long-term threat to Fortnite, and I already see a lot of creators coming back to Fortnite, but we'll have to see.
The fact is that Fortnite is so huge that its revenue for 2019 could be a third of what it was in 2018 and it would still be … a billion dollars. We still have a long way to go before we start talking seriously about "the fall of Fortnite", given its success and success, even with declines.
Follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Read my new sci-fi crime novel Herokiller, now available in print and online. I have also written The trilogy born of the earth.