Across all platforms Fortnite is estimated to have generated $2.4bn in 2018 and it was the most watched game on Twitch in 2018. The game generated $350M in net revenue on iOS alone in 2018. Since the day it released in March on iOS, Fortnite has held tight to the the #1 top grossing spot. Of course, Fortnite accounted for most of the Battle Royale revenues. To understand it at a glance, please look at the image below. To understand our taxonomy in details, please read this. More specifically, we will deep dive into Battle Royale, which is a subcategory of the Action Games genre. In this post, we discuss Action Games, which we see as a category in the Mid-core genre. They are there more to show trends and to give rough estimates.įirst: A Sneak Peak of the Whole Mid-core MarketĪs you’ve noticed from the previous prediction post, we actively refer to categories, genres and subgenres. Please, take the numbers presented with a giant grain of salt. Once we had a clear view of what happened, we got together and wrote our predictions. Then we pulled the data of top 500 games (excluding China, Japan and Korea) from Sensor Tower and aligned the data with the genres, categories and sub-categories. As as example, Candy Crush Saga is in a) Casual Games genre > Puzzle Games category > Match & Blast sub-category

Then we further broke down the genres into categories based on games and then we further divided each category into a sub-category based. Also, the other 2019 Predictions can be found here.īefore you jump in, let us sum up how we arrived to the predictions.įirst we created a taxonomy together with Game Refinery dividing the games market into four different genres: Casual, Mid-Core, Casino and Sports. To make sure you don’t miss on all of the 🔥content coming out in the future, please do subscribe to the Deconstructor of Fun infrequent but powerful newsletter. The last prediction in this year’s extensive series focuses on the breakthrough category of 2018 - Battle Royale games. This prediction is written by Michail Katkoff, Kalle Heikkinen, Abhimanyu Kumar and Alexandre Macmillan.

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