Fortnite is a battle royale game, released in 2017, just after a few months when PUBG was officially launched. It is developed by Epic Games. We'll check the worth of Epic Games too.
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How much is Fortnite worth?
Fortnite worth in 2021 (right now):
The worth of Fortnite as of April 2021 is around 30 billion US Dollars!
Fortnite historical worth:
Fortnite is actually earning billion of dollars since 2017. Concerning a popular source, Fortnite is worth 2.2 billion (estimated, it may be more or less) dollars right now in 2020.
Whereas the maker of Fortnite, Epic Games is valued at an estimated 17 billion dollars. Although the average revenue per day is estimated to be around 1-2 million dollars, the pandemic has actually increased the profit of Epic Games and due to the 2020 pandemic, in April alone Fortnite generated a revenue of 400 million dollars. It is forecasted that the revenue generated by Fortnite at the end of 2020 will be around 5 billion dollars.
As of 2021, net worth of Fortnite is estimated to be over 2 billion USD.
Just in August of the year when Fortnite was released, the total players were reported to be more than a million. The sudden boost in players count was reported in June of 2018, less than a year after its released and the count was around 130 million. Now, the total player count is around 400 million.
Why Fortnite earns the highest revenue on the ground of any battle royale games?
By the way, Epic Games has earned a lot just from a single game, Fortnite. The reason behind it is that Fortnite is a competitive game out there in Esports at the global level.
Even its latest pool price is around 35 million USD, which means that Epic Games surely do earn more. In 2018 and 2019, Fortnite was the highest revenue-generating game on the ground of any battle royale game.
Moreover, Fortnite has got several features like crossplay, etc. It's free to play on every platform so this is obvious that more and more people will try this game. You already know this is not in the case of Apex Legends because it didn't gain much popularity as there are a lot of free-to-play games that came even before Apex Legends. Moreover, Fortnite is the second battle royale game released after PUBG. Even PUBG can't make it to Fortnite because it isn't free to play on other platforms except for mobile.
How can Epic Games afford to put games like GTA 5 free of cost?
There is a clever logic behind why they put triple-A titles for free of cost and is too simple to understand.
Those free games mean that more and more players must have to download the Epic Games store.
At the same time, other big game developers like Rockstar, EA will more likely publish their games on the Epic Games store as there are a vast number of players who downloaded Epic Games Store just because Epic Games distributed those AAA titles for free of cost in their store.
Don't worry about money, Epic Games is a maker and developer of Fortnite too, which is a competitive game out there in esports at global level, and those paid games, published in Epic Games store are bought by millions of players, man, just because they have now Epic Games store!
Conclusion
With active players of more than 350 million per month, as well as due to the pandemic, Fortnite has got a rapid spurt in its revenue. As well as its net worth is 2.2 billion dollars. Fortnite is one of the hottest games out there in the market. In 2018, Fortnite earned a revenue of 2.4 billion dollars. In 2019, it made 1.8 billion dollars. At the end of 2020, it is believed that Fortnite will generate a revenue of 5 billion dollars. After all, Fortnite will keep expanding the Epic Games' wallet.
*The information written here is collected from several popular sources.
Published on 24th October of 2020. Updated on 9th Sep of 2021.