Fortnite Battle Royale has hit 20 million unique players ahead of PUBG

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Fortnite’s take on the battle royale genre has hit a major player milestone ahead of its main competition.

The Fortnite Twitter account announced this incredible milestone today, thanking everyone who has checked the game out.

This means that Fortnite Battle Royale has had more downloads that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the game that obviously inspired it. PUBG is currently sitting on 17 million sales.


Of course, there are many reasons for this. Fortnite Battle Royale is completely free, and available on PS4 and Xbox One as well as PC. It also came with a built-in audience of players who were already playing Fortnite’s early access build, which sold very well early on. PUBG is almost certainly more profitable than Fortnite, too – 17 million sales at $30 per copy is enormous.

As we know, though, the developers of PUBG are not pleased with Fortnite, with Bluehole VP and executive producer Changhan Kim speculating that being in direct competition with Epic could hurt the game’s progress if engine improvements are withheld from the team.

Fortnite Battle Royale can’t match PUBG for concurrent users, though – Fortnite’s 800,000 is a very impressive number, but Battlegrounds has the current Steam record with over two million.

Both games are doing extremely well. If you’re one of Fortnite Battle Royale’s 20 million players, let us know what you think of the game in the comments.

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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2017/11/06/fortnite-battle-royale-has-hit-20-million-unique-players-ahead-of-playerunknowns-battlegrounds/

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DanielPosted:

This is insane, It's doing so well but once PUBG comes out it's going to smash Fortnight out the water, I have been playing it on my brothers console as I'm communication and console banned on my console so it won't let me play it but I can play any other game.

Two_FacedPosted:

Decy Great Milestone.. Although it is free the game is a lot of fun. For those who think its a rip off of pubg its really not it has its differences.


True, and the only thing this does is promote friendly competition, for each game to 'out do' the other. It's a very sumimilar game. Not even a rip off, that's like saying call of duty is a rip off of OO7

Mason95Posted:

I'm one of them, but PUBG is going to be hitting some large numbers when it comes out for xbox, best luck if it comes out for ps. Some of you guys are saying the same shit that the article is saying. Half of you people don't even read all of it, sad...

XboxPosted:

Gues their copycat mode is doing pretty well.

T0PPosted:

Great milestone but Fortnite is on 3 platforms whereas PUBG is currently on 1

SilkyPosted:

Brilliant game and tbh one of a few that is really fun to play with friends.

MikePosted:

Mainly because it's free and people don't wanna pay or don't have a pc

junoPosted:

This is the best milestone I've seen, the game is so amazing it deserves this!

RuiPosted:

PUBG, really can't be annoyed as theirs is another version to H1Z1,

Amazing Milestone, i can see them reaching if not passing 2 Million soon!

Also, i have heard that they are nearly at 1Million concurrent Players

DecyPosted:

Great Milestone.. Although it is free the game is a lot of fun. For those who think its a rip off of pubg its really not it has its differences.


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