Fortnite has exploded in recognition—rising bigger than ever—thanks largely to the well-received OG Season and up to date updates that added video games like Lego Fortnite into Epic’s free-to-play shooter. Now information exhibits gamers on Xbox and PlayStation have spent extra hours in Fortnite than Grand Theft Auto V, Roblox, EA Sports activities FC 24, and Name of Responsibility mixed.
For the final two months, Fortnite has been on a gradual incline in recognition. In November, the return of the unique battle royale map in addition to basic weapons led to Fortnite’s highest variety of gamers in a single day within the recreation’s six-year historical past. After that, in December, Epic added three video games to Fortnite: Lego Fortnite, Fortnite Competition, and Rocket Racing. Anecdotally, my good friend listing on Xbox and PlayStation is now taking part in principally Fortnite—and these are individuals who barely or by no means performed earlier than. And new information from Ampere Evaluation signifies that Fortnite is certainly dominating on consoles.
As noticed by VGC, Ampere Evaluation launched a report on January 11 exhibiting that in November 2023, the full hours spent in Fortnite elevated by practically 150 p.c. In December hours performed grew an extra 9 p.c.
In response to Ampere, console avid gamers on Xbox and PlayStation spent extra time in Fortnite than in Roblox, GTA V, GTA On-line, EA Sports activities FC 24, and Name of Responsibility HQ which incorporates Fashionable Warfare 2, Fashionable Warfare 3, and Warzone. All complete, console gamers spent greater than 1.6 billion hours taking part in Fortnite in November 2023.
All of this momentum helped push Epic to turn out to be the main writer by month-to-month lively customers throughout Xbox and Ps, surpassing normal chief EA and different corporations like Ubisoft and Activision.
Whereas Ampere expects many of those new or returning gamers to lose curiosity finally and for Fortnite’s stats to normalize a bit, it does level out that Epic has confirmed one other OG season is coming in 2024. That might result in one other enormous bump in gamers. And it’s seemingly that Epic has plans to carry extra video games, like Lego Fortnite, to its in style battle royale sooner or later. So it’s attainable that Fortnite would possibly develop even bigger by the tip of this 12 months. Which is nearly exhausting to think about, actually.
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