If Nick were still doing his News by Numbers column, he’d be all over a stat like this. Turns out that Battle Royale game people won’t stop talking about rakes in a lot of money.
On mobile alone, Fortnite is reportedly making as much as $2 million USD a day average. Bearing in mind ‘mobile’ in this context just means the iOS version, since Android hasn’t landed yet.
The data comes via Sensor Tower, a business-focused website that likes to track activity such as this. Between the iOS version’s launch on March 15th, 2018 and July 11th (when Season 4 ended), the daily figure was around $1.2 million USD.
The new higher estimation comes from data pulled from the first ten days of activity for Fortnite’s Season 5 content. This new figure is 19% higher than what was spent on average during the first days of Season 4. Sensor Tower also states that the game’s all time high daily spend was on July 13th (so a couple of days into S5), where it hit $3 million USD.
There’s still no word on when the Android crowd is allowed in on the fun, but we’re still expecting it to drop before the end of summer.