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Fortnite now has 125 million players just one year after launch

Fortnite now has 125 million players just one year after launch

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Developer Epic Games announced today that Fortnite has grown to 125 million registered players in less than a year. The metric, confirmed in a blog post about the game’s $100 million e-sports competition, is the first updated player figures from Epic since the company confirmed the game had been downloaded 45 million times back in January. Just last week, Epic investor Tencent confirmed that 40 million people play the game at once a month. Fortnite came out in July 2017, and its battle royale game mode didn’t launch until September 2017.

It’s no wonder Fortnite has ballooned in popularity given that is both free and accessible on almost every major platform, including the Nintendo Switch as of earlier today. The only player base left untapped right now is Android, which is, of course, the largest on the planet due to the number of Android smartphones. Last year, Google announced there were more than 2 billion active Android devices across the globe. So that’s a huge potential opportunity for Epic to continue growing its battle royale hit.