fortnite battle royale came out for ps4 in 2017.
fortnite battle royale came out for ps4 in 2017.
when did fortnite battle royale come out for ps4?
2017
epic games had released "fortnite", a cooperative survival game, into early access near the release of "battlegrounds". epic saw the potential to create their own battle royale mode, and by september 2017, released the free-to-play "fortnite battle royale" which combined some of the survival elements and mechanics from the main "fortnite" game with the battle royale gameplay concept. the game saw similar player counts as "battlegrounds", with twenty million unique players reported by epic games by november 2017. bluehole expressed concern at this move, less due to being a clone of "battlegrounds", but more so that they had been working with epic games for technical support of the unreal engine in "battlegrounds", and thus they were worried that "fortnite" may be able to include planned features to their battle royale mode before they could release those in "battlegrounds". "battleground" developer, pubg corporation, filed a lawsuit against epic in south korea in january 2018 claiming "fortnite battle royale" infringements on "battlegrounds" copyrights. market observers predicted that there would be little likelihood of bluehole winning the case, as it would be difficult to establish the originality of "pubg" in court due to the battle royale game genre, which includes both "pubg" and "fortnite battle royale", being derived from the japanese film "battle royale". by the end of june 2018, the lawsuit had been closed by pubg, under undisclosed reasons.
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analysis firm superdata estimated that "fortnite battle royale" made over in february 2018, surpassing "battlegrounds"s revenues for the same period of . superdata estimated "fortnite"s revenues over all platforms to exceed for the month of march. by april 2018, superdata estimated that "fortnite battle royale" had surpassed both sales and player count on all platforms over "battlegrounds". the game generated in revenue in april, followed by in may, according to superdata. by july 2018, "fortnite battle royale" had been estimated to have brought in over in revenue. prior to the season 5 start in july 2018, sensor tower estimated that the mobile version of "fortnite battle royale" made over daily; following the launch of season 5, revenues jumped to per day. superdata estimated that "fortnite battle royale" brought in in revenue during 2018, the highest annual revenue of any free-to-play title.
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