-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
GI.biz: Fortnite mobile has half the downloads of PUBG, but five times the revenue
- Thread starter patapon
- Start date
Not surprising. Fortnite is built from the ground up as a F2P game full of microtransactions and (actually good) things to spend your v-bucks on. PUBG is a $30 game that has been transformed into a F2P mobile game and the cosmetics and additional purchase stuff is nowhere near as compelling.
It has an estimated 350 million players. Fortnite has 125 million players across every platform. PUBG Mobile is damn big.
And that's essentially all there is to it. PUBG is really dying, I guess.
Main thing I'm taking away here is to stay the hell away from mobile gaming. It represents almost everything I dislike in gaming in general. See the new command and conquer.
On topic - Fortnite is doing phenomenally well. I wonder if Epic will ever undertake new projects again for console?
On topic - Fortnite is doing phenomenally well. I wonder if Epic will ever undertake new projects again for console?
Did you see Android vs iOS market share worldwide?
It's like 80% Android and 17% iOS so why would someone even be surprised? Fortnite isn't available yet on Android.
China is the reign of Android (not Google tho), and considering consoles aren't popular there (banned until few years ago), they are all playing these mobile games.
In fact none of PUBG or Fortnite are even close to Arena of Valor / Honour of Kings.
What's that main thing? Fortnite has the same monetization on all platforms.
Yes I am aware that Fortnite isn't on Android yet. I'm sure a lot of Android users will play it once it launches. The guy asked how PUBG on mobile was doing. I feel like I answered correctly? It was a shit ton of players. I think 'nearly three times as many people as play Fortnite on every platform' is a good comparison to show how big it is?
Yeah, true.
Fortnite has 125 million players.
PUBG has sold 50 million copies but has 400 million players. The mobile version is F2P.
Still, There are way more Android phones out there than PS4+XB1+NSW and maybe even PC combined.
There are big countries like China and India where the only device you have in your house it's an Android phone.
Will probs play fortnite from time to time when on commute just waitin for the android version to show up.
Sounds neat play on mbile while traveling and at home on switch, glad i got a good powerbank recently.
Sounds neat play on mbile while traveling and at home on switch, glad i got a good powerbank recently.
I am aware. At the moment, PUBG has 350 million mobile players and Fortnite has 125 million players across all their platforms. Yes, when Fortnite eventually launches on Android it will pick up many more.
Ah, so we'll probably be seeing Fortnite's model in everything soon then, now that lootboxes have a nasty smell to them and you can make a lot more from it, if done well.
I'd presume so yeah. People love the Battle Pass. Although I still maintain it's not one to one with the quality of microtransaction purchases in Fortnite and in PUBG. The cosmetics in PUBG are essentially meaningless. You completely cover them with body armour and helmets after about 3 minutes in every game. They're virtually never seen beyond the loading in area. Fortnite doesn't have any of that so you're always showing off your wacky costume. Plus Fortnite's design encourages silly outfits (super hero stuff/sports tie-ins, comedy dances etc). PUBG is just modern military outfits and t-shirts. Haven't felt much desire to spend in PUBG at all despite playing it for about 100 hours. I've already spent as much on Fortnite DLC as I spent buying PUBG and i've only been playing BR for about five weeks. They've nailed the F2P model. It's got a strong carrot-on-a-stick model that keeps you wanting to put money in.
Chinese numbers. Still impressive that they managed to get that much there, but in the end PUBG relevancy in other part of the world is pretty much dying. The Chinese can have PUBG if they wanted it.
Yeah. I don't feel like I'm getting ripped off buying the battle pass.
Is this real life? I mean, "The Chinese can have PUBG" is that a generous statement from your side because Chinese gamers don't count? And we saw just yesterday that 8 million people played PUBG on Xbox One family consoles with an impressive growth over the last three months. How can one consider it dying when it currently pulls numbers that many games cannot even dream to reach ever? There is really something wrong with Era and this game.
It really shows that Android is the least profitable platform, and it has been since 2012-2013 or something
It's still bizarre to me that people seem to adore Fortnites microtransactions (BattlePass) but hate almost every other monetization model in triple A gaming. Same with Overwatch.
I know implementation is a huge part of the appeal, but they're still locking content away.
I know implementation is a huge part of the appeal, but they're still locking content away.
No, please. No more. They've barely got PC in a playable state (and if you listen to most people, it still isn't). They dump pathetic patch notes with 3 or 4 ridiculously useless fixes and they've continued to ignore long-term issues that have persisted since EA. Please, no more platforms until they figure out the game on one of the ones they've already got.
I live in Japan and it's quite popular here as well. A few times I've seen guys playing on their phone or even on their gigantic tablet. I guess it's also doing well in Korea.