David Hanak In the second half of March, a port of one of the most popular games today - Fortnite: Battle Royale - was released on iOS. It is an extremely popular game that reigns supreme on both PC and consoles. The developers with Epic Games decided to try their luck on mobile platforms as well, and as it turns out, in the case of iOS, this move paid off handsomely. The game was in invite-only mode for about 14 days, but more than a week ago, the developers allowed everyone to play. And Fortnite is still breaking records.
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The analytical company Sensor Tower, which deals with activity in the App Store, came up with the first more specific statistics regarding the success of the new title. According to their data, it looks like the game has made a whopping $15 million so far. If we take into account that it is normally available for a little over a week, these are really great numbers.
The game originally appeared on the App Store on March 15. Only last week, however, the "invite only" mode ended, when only those who had an invitation got into the game (it could be obtained either from an active player or directly from Epic - if you were lucky).
On average, a game earns a little over $600 in one day. However, on the first day the game was available to everyone, it made more than $1,8 million. The player base is currently said to be around 11 million active players. With these stats, it's clear that this is by far the most successful game currently on the App Store. It is the highest-grossing title in twenty-three countries, and Fortnite surpasses the constants in this category, such as Candy Crush Saga, Clash of Clans or Pokémon Go. These results are all the more surprising given that 14 days ago, a mobile port of PUBG - which started the whole battle royale mania last year - appeared on the App Store.
In purely financial terms, the game has earned over $15 million so far. Less than 5 million of this amount was secured by Apple by offering the game in its App Store. However, the developers still "left" a very nice 10 million dollars, and it seems that the popularity of the game will not just decrease. This means that incomes should not decrease in any fundamental way, although it is clear that the initial enthusiasm will at least decrease a little. How are you doing with battle royale titles? Are you more interested in Fortnite or PUBG? Or do you not play these games at all and don't understand the frenzy surrounding them? Share with us in the discussion below.
Source: 9to5mac
So AppleTV nothing again and I'm not going to play it on my phone... I really don't understand why they started tearing the ATV application when they finally buried it with those stupid rules :-/ Not even 3 years after the launch, no blockbuster, only B-titles...
Well, given that the app only supports devices with an A9 processor and above, I'm worried about the Apple TV 4 gen. It wouldn't be enough for that, so making an app just for the 4K version doesn't make any sense yet... and given that the mfi gamepad is not yet supported (promised to be in the future), maybe you should do this...
Mainly, the game doesn't support gamepads, that's bad, I hope an update will come soon