Fortnite Trumps PUBG to Earn $126 Million Revenue Last Month

PUBG and Fortnite are both insanely popular at the moment and even though the former has been around for a year, Epic Games' Fortnite has managed to amuse gamers a lot more than in the past few months. Gaming intelligence company SuperData Research says Fortnite ruled the market last month in terms of revenue and interest.

According to the report, Fortnite earned $126 meg in revenues last calendar month, while PUBG could manage but $103 one thousand thousand. While the former's revenues are seeing an upsurge with every passing calendar month, the report states that PUBG revenues hit a peak in Dec, the month it launched on Xbox I. Fortnite already surpassed PUBG to become the most streamed game on Twitch last month.

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The study too notes that in that location are enough signs to signal Fortnite has overtaken PUBG in other parameters. While PUBG viewership on Twitch seems stagnant around viii.5 million marking over the past few months, Fortnite is gaining in momentum, registering xiv meg unique viewers in February, more than doubling the half dozen million unique viewers in Jan.

1 of the factors that seems to be aiding the phenomenal growth of Fortnite is the fact that it is complimentary-to-play, while PUBG comes with a $30 price-tag. The report also says that the "easier learning curve" and kid friendly cartoonish looks of Fortnite accept helped it amass a wider audience and big acquirement, and not just on PC and consoles either.

While PUBG and Fortnite are, by far, the two most pop battle royale games in the market right now, it will exist interesting to come across what happens when major publishers like Activision Blizzard, EA and Ubisoft start releasing their own respective takes on the genre in the months to come. Of course, one of the first big-ticket games to introduce a battle royale mode this year volition exist Red Dead Redemption two.