The Meteors Start Falling In Fortnite, Which Brought In More Than World of Warcraft In March

Jason Winter
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Players have been anticipating a meteor strike in Fortnite: Battle Royale for some time now, and it's finally starting to happen. One Redditor posted a video of a meteor -- technically a meteorite once it hits the ground -- striking and knocking out a section of fence. The damage is hardly significant, but this could be the harbinger of what's to come, with the current season ending on April 30. It's guessed that once the new season hits, things will change dramatically, including a possible swarm of meteors destroying Tilted Towers.

In the opposite of apocalyptic news, SuperData reports that Fortnite brought in $223 million across all platforms -- PC, console, and mobile -- during the month of March, calling it "largest free-to-play console game of all time" (emphasis theirs). It's #1 on their console list, naturally, and #5 on PC, surpassing World of Warcraft, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and World of Tanks.

How much is $233 million? Well, a lot, obviously. But by comparison, NCSoft's last financial statement had the company bringing in about $494 million in Q4 of 2017. That's for the entire company, for all its games, over a three-month period. Fortnite, a single game, did about half that in one month.

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Jason Winter
Jason Winter, News Editor
Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a wide range of experience to MMOBomb, including two years with Beckett Media where he served as the editor of the leading gaming magazine Massive Online Gamer. He has also written professionally for several gaming websites.

Discussion (1)

Dozier 5 years ago
It's the end of a WoW expansion, no one is playing it. lol


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