PlayStation 4 owners turned out to be the biggest Fortnite fans – iOS only in fifth place in terms of revenue

In litigation between Apple and Epic Games it became known that the main platform for the royal battle Fortnite in terms of revenues from microtransactions, it was not computers or even smartphones that are owned by billions of people, but the console Playstation 4 from Sony… The publication informs about it. The verge

According to the documents presented in court, for the period from March 2018 to July 2023 46.8% of Fortnite’s total revenue was brought by PlayStation 4… In second place is Xbox one with result in 27.5%… The iOS operating system on which they run iPhone and iPad, took only 5th place with a result in 7%… Rest 18.7% proceeds were distributed between Nintendo Switch, Android and PC

Epic Games lawyers argue that for 2023, Fortnite developers predicted only 5.8% of total annual revenue on iOS devices, while PlayStation 4 should have accounted for almost 40%, and on Xbox One – 24%. Last summer, battle royale with scandal was removed from AppStore

According to senior programmer at Epic Games David Nickdel, The iOS version of Fortnite has always been the last in revenue, or second in terms of revenue if you count Android

In 2023, it was inferior to the following platforms:

  • Playstation 4
  • Xbox one
  • Nintendo Switch
  • PC

For many experts, the news about the low positions of the PC in the general chart was especially unexpected.

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