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Epic rakes in more than $1 million in the first 72 hours of Fortnite's mobile beta

Holy cheese and crackers, Batman

Epic rakes in more than $1 million in the first 72 hours of Fortnite's mobile beta

I don't need to tell you what a craze Fortnite has turned into these past couple of months, but now it's coming to mobile it's a different story entirely. Well, the figures are in and the popular battler certainly isn't disappointing.

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Yesterday, Sensor Tower released a report on the game's performance using its Store Intelligence data. Fortnite took up a top spot on the App Store in over 40 countries but once the IAPs went live it easily out-grossed NetEase's two battle royale rivals, Rules of Survival and Knives Out. There's no data on FortCraft as of yet.

To make matters more impressive, when compared to two of mobile's biggest launches from the past couple of years, Fornite's cosmetic IAPs have pretty much grossed close to one-third as much as Pokemon GO and Clash Royale in their first four days on iOS.

Though it's such a high figure for such a short amount of time, I'm really not surprised given the spending habits of PC/console-users. When you've got big-time influencers like Ninja and his massive following on Twitch, popular YouTubers showing off gameplay with their favourite skins/gear, and time-limited items being featured every few weeks, you can't blame them for selling like hotcakes.

While you can acquire V-Bucks throughout the season, it's a painfully slow and usually pretty fruitless process, and it's much easier to just buy the currency outright if you want the items. On PC this ranges from £7.99 for 1,000 V-Bucks to £79.99 for 10,000 V-Bucks and 3,500 Bonus.

The cheeky thing here is, I guess because of iOS' UK/US conversion rates, buying the same V-Bucks on mobile will cost you £9.99 for 1,000 V-Bucks to £99.99 for 10,000 V-Bucks and 3,500 Bonus, so bear that in mind.

We'll have to watch the overall revenue figure as more people are invited to take part in the beta, but things are clearly proving fruitful for Epic so far.


Emily Sowden
Emily Sowden
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