Seems I incidentally ruffled some Fortnite fans feathers in this thread.
To not think that between both Battlefield and Call of Duty we will witness a significant drop I think is rather naive.
Yeah, people laugh at Pachter, but stuff like this is 1,000x worse. I mean there's even the 'hey I don't know if you noticed, but [company with tie in] saw its stock price drop!!!' tangent seen most recently with Nike and their Kaepernick ad. It's kind of embarrassing.
Blackout will be fine because it's the first actual built from the ground up aaa BRThe only game able to compete with Fortnite is COD. If they really want to compete they have to have a FREE BR.
You know that Fortnite's Battle Royale mode was just tacked onto their failed tower defense main game right?Not a chance! The other pretenders to its throne are tacked on modes to AAA games. They will be good for competition but Fortnite has plenty of gas in the tank yet.
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Call of Duty certainly opened a few peoples eyes to just how much polish was missing from the other Battle Royale's out there and it's just the beginning.
Usually seeing just a "yes" in reply to the title would be a random joke post but seeing it beside NPD Analyst is funny.
Dude your new avatar is the cat's ass. Gomez up in here speaking truth.
I hate to say it but even with all the bad press Black ops 4 has got, im getting Black ops 4 for blackout. If ninja changes and starts playing shooters again more prominently than I would say you will see a bigger decline as they have yet put out anything content wise for that game. No new maps things like that.
Thanks! And it's the first COD since the first Black op's i'm considering buying for the same reason.
Usually seeing just a "yes" in reply to the title would be a random joke post but seeing it beside NPD Analyst is funny.
They had just 2% growth with the launch of the current Battlepass. It would be sensible to say that this was the most clear indication of the game peaking. Now it will be all about retention and milking the existing userbase.
It is still crazy successful, though.
With the onset of other big shooters on the horizon with Battle Royal modes, will this signal the end of Fortnite's reign over the gaming world as the most popular game?
What do you think ERA? Do you feel that games like Battlefield and Call of Duty introducing Battle Royal will harm Fortnite's popularity?
I think you're taking this the wrong way. Usually a thread with a title like this would cause a flood of random people posting "nah" or "ya" pointlessly then leaving the thread, so it's rare to see a similar post as a serious / informed reply by an NPD analyst.
I think you're taking this the wrong way. Usually a thread with a title like this would cause a flood of random people posting "nah" or "ya" pointlessly then leaving the thread, so it's rare to see a similar post as a serious / informed reply by an NPD analyst.
World of Warcraft's new expansion has been showing some decent numbers.
Not sure how it will shakeout for Fortnite but it definitely seems to have peaked.
I have noticed that Ninja has dropped from the 100k+ viewers per stream to something like 60k now. School being back in session could cause that, and I have seen less of it here and there, but there's no denying that that thing has HOLD on many people. I wouldn't expect it to go anywhere any time soon.
Nah, there's a Fall skirmish coming up worth literally millions of dollars in prizes hosted by Epic Games (prize money even bigger than the Summer skirmish). It'll be fine.
I had to laugh a little at the idea Fortnite isn't - on its own - a big IP.Ah I see.
Viewership peaked in early Q2. Seeing slowing growth across data points that were driven by Fortnite earlier in the year like headsets and controllers. Also have major IP entering the BR space that will grow the audience but also steal share. Fortnite will continue to do fine, but more cash cow now than growth engine. The big IP are going to come in and take majority genre share.
He was at 240,000 this morning due to a promotion where people can get in the beta for free today by watching his stream from 10AM to 12PM. His viewers will be demanding him to play Fortnite if they aren't alread.
This is one very specific snapshot of Twitch stats from the day/first hours that Blackout launched on PC/Xbox. It took only days for the PlayStation stream numbers to slow down on Twitch. Why don't we wait for these to settle down before we jump to conclusion? Fortnite was destroying Black Ops 4 for the past few days on Twitch, even with some massive streamers playing Blackout.