Fortnite Hits Another Significant Milestone

 

 Fortnite Hits Another Significant Milestone

Over the previous year-plus, Fortnite has become a hugely popular sport on the rear part of its battle royale style. Together with it facing increased competition, Epic Games has given an update on exactly how large Fortnite has increased.

Concerning people really playing with the match, Epic also disclosed that Fortnite attained a new concurrent participant set of 10.8 million. This amount accounts for the peak amount of gamers that are online at exactly the exact same moment. Keep in mind that Apex Legends published in early February, which game's incredible success has not prevented Fortnite from attaining new heights.

Epic, needless to say, continue supplying Fortnite: Battle Royale upgrades to keep the game clean. The latest, version 8.11, includes a new weapon (the Flint-Knock Pistol), yet another LTM, and much more.

While Fortnite is among the most well-known games lately, it might still be supporting Minecraft on a single metric. Microsoft's sandbox game allegedly has 91 million monthly gamers, which will be forward of Fortnite's 78.3 million. Nonetheless, these figures have not been updated in a while, so it remains to seen if anything else has changed.

Remarking on Fortnite's enormous success, Epic boss Tim Sweeney informed Engadget, "it is a true match. It is a shooter. It is worldwide. It is the very first shooter with massive female inhabitants. Someone estimated it at about 35 percent, which is unprecedented--isn't it 50? --but it is unprecedented for anything similar to this. It is because it brings players together at a social encounter."

In other Fortnite-related news, Epic declared at GDC that it has established a $100 million fund for programmers which has been made possible as a result of the achievement of Fortnite. Moreover, Epic declared that Quantic Dream's PlayStation-exclusive titles such as Heavy Rain, Beyond: 2 Souls, and Detroit: Become Individuals are coming into the Epic Games Store this season.