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Are we finally seeing the decline of Fortnite?

Vire

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With the onset of other big shooters on the horizon with Battle Royal modes, will this signal the end of Fortnite's reign over the gaming world as the most popular game?

What do you think ERA? Do you feel that games like Battlefield and Call of Duty introducing Battle Royal will harm Fortnite's popularity?
 
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ILikeFeet

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you picture doesn't imply anything. especially not without a comparison to past numbers and competition
 
Betty

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Call of Duty certainly opened a few peoples eyes to just how much polish was missing from the other Battle Royale's out there and it's just the beginning.
 
tsab

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What if the gamers are playing more Fortnite now instead of watching it???
 

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Call of Duty has the beta which streamers are being paid for
Counter Strike has a tourney
Destiny 2 just launched the raid

All of these are big events for their resprrespe community
 
TheMissingLink

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Agreed, this is one snapshot in time where an insanely-popular streamer is streaming CoD:BO4.

There any data aside from further saturation in the market?
 
Cenauru

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Black Ops 4's PC beta, BR beta, and Destiny 2's world first raids are going on right now, this isn't an indication of viewership at all.
 
Fatmanp

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No

COD - Blackout on PC
CS - Esports event
D2 - Raid launch
WoW - Similar to above
LOL - Not sure but would assume event + it is very popular.

100k viewers is good considering most of its top streamers are playing BLOPS
 
MrNelson

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People are more interested in seeing a new thing that has been kept under wraps for months rather that something they've been watching for months?

Nah, it's gotta be Fortnite dying.
 
Tora

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I think that it's declined slightly, but bottom line is that the game is free and on pretty much every platform. It'll maintain a healthy player base, which should drop a little because the numbers that they've been pulling in are insanely hard to retain. I know i've had enough of the battle royale genre to even try the blackout beta now, as fun as it looks.
 

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I believe based on data provided by a market research firm (don't have a link handy at the moment, sorry), growth slowed down around the May timeframe. Who knows if or how much there has been a decline since.
 
harz-marz

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Not a chance! The other pretenders to its throne are tacked on modes to AAA games. They will be good for competition but Fortnite has plenty of gas in the tank yet.
 
JCADX

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Black Ops 4 is closed beta, right? Maybe that can justify the high numbers. Other games there (such as Destiny 2 Forsaken or WoW) received expansions recently.
 
CountAntonio

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lol. People are watching those streams to get beta keys and to get a first look at the PC version. Too soon for this thread. That being said it's inevitable that the game will eventually slow down and players look for something new but the game will be fine. Free vs 60 dollars is still a big deal.
 

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Jesus Christ. Twitch numbers are not a metric of anything when something as just come out.

Big streamers will try out what's hot, then go back to what they normally play. This has been proven again and again and again.

If COD is pushing these numbers a month after launch, then we can talk.
 
pixeldreams

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Things that started today:

- Black Ops 4 Blackout beta on PC
- Destiny 2: Forsaken raid
- CS:GO tournament

Take those out of the equation and Fortnite is easily Top 3 or #1.

However, with how much positive reception the Blackout beta is getting, it seems to have some fresh competition in the future, at least from the more popular streamers.
 
Auctopus

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That's an amazingly uninformed OP.

Counterstrike: Tournament
Black Ops: Beta is currently on
Destiny 2: Raid launches tonight
WoW: Raid/New Expansion
LoL: Tournament

Not to be some Fortnite defender but the fact it's hanging with those games despite not having anything majorly significant on right now shows that it is still very much around. As others have said, the game still pulls those numbers when big streamers are streaming.
 

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You're gonna have to wait a lot longer than just the first couple of weeks of some hot games coming out. Fortnite has been out a while so obviously BR fans are gonna try out the new BR game. I don't see a long-term decline just due to the fact of how different Fortnite is in the BR space and that it's f2p. The better thread question is whether Blackout will steal a lot of PUBG's userbase.
 

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Call of Duty is brand new and I'm sure a lot of Fortnite streamers are currently trying it out and thus there audience goes with them. Take a look again a few months after COD comes out.
 
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Pandoracell said:
I believe based on data provided by a market research firm (don't have a link handy at the moment, sorry), growth slowed down around the May timeframe. Who knows if or how much there has been a decline since.
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Interesting, it's worth noting that FUNKO stock which had material rights to Fortnite toys actually took a rather large hit trading at 30 dollars a share last week and now at 20 because of due in part to an implied threat of other games like Call of Duty. Obviously not the full story, but an little anecdote.
 
Conkerkid11

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That's what happens when Ninja (100k+ viewers) doesn't play Fortnite.

Fortnite streamers are playing a time-limited beta for Blackout right now.
 

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Black Ops 4's PC beta, BR beta, and Destiny 2's world first raids are going on right now, this isn't an indication of viewership at all.
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this.

Destiny 2 will be dead again once everyone gets sick of the current DLC and starts complaining about the game.

As for Black Ops 4, it's definitely a wait and see but given that it's beta just launched today it makes sense for it to be up there on Twitch. I'm curious if the game will have that large of a viewership once it actually out for a few weeks.
 
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Vire said:
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With the onset of other big shooters on the horizon with Battle Royal modes, will this signal the end of Fortnite's reign over the gaming world as the most popular game?

What do you think ERA?
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No. Jesus christ guys haven't we gone with this dumb analysis of Twitch numbers enough times?
 
glasiche

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Fortnite is pretty much Minecraft energy w/ guns for these kids dude,

It's like has rooster haircut/steelworker slick back/biker jacket run its course yet?

Welcome to generation quagmire
 
Van Bur3n

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It seems all of these games have an specific event occurring with them that are drawing in viewers. Viewership going up for these games and for new games happens frequently. Overtime, Fortnite will go back to taking over viewership. It by no means is indicative of a decline.

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Ninja is getting paid to stream CoD today, that's 200k+ streamers added to CoD's total today.
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Also yeah, this is probably an important factor as well.

We really shouldn't be using Twitch views to try to determine these sort of things.
 
Heel

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PUBG not even being in that screenshot may end up being a little more relevant to the future of the battle royale landscape, honestly.
 
SlickShoes

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The current big Fortnite streamers are all being paid to play Black Ops 4 this weekend, so that will affect the amount of people watching streams of fortnite I would imagine. The game is still doing as well as it was last week.
 
Alienous

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Sure, Fortnite has been largely uncontested in the console space (PUBG being absent entirely on the most popular console), and Call of Duty will certainly drink a lot of its milkshake.

The baseline popularity of Call of Duty + the popularity of Battle Royale games will be immense.
 
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