Minecraft nonetheless has extra month-to-month gamers than Fortnite

August was Fortnite’s greatest month thus far with Epic stating the battle royale’s participant depend hit 78.three million. It’s an astonishing quantity, nonetheless, it barely touches the participant depend of Minecraft which, in response to Microsoft, at the moment has 91 million month-to-month lively gamers. That’s simply shy of a 13 million participant distinction.  

Fortnite’s month-to-month participant numbers aren’t the one statistic to hit the hundreds of thousands. Total downloads of the game are reaching the 125 million mark however, once more, Minecraft has managed to keep up its intense reputation with over 150 million copies bought. With Fortnite releasing in 2017 and Minecraft in 2009, the sandbox title has an nearly ten yr head begin, however there’s not trace that these numbers are falling regardless of the years.

With Minecraft’s success and robust playerbase there’s not been a lot dialogue of Microsoft creating Minecraft 2. Helen Chiang, head of Minecraft at Microsoft, just lately mentioned in interview with Business Insider Australia {that a} sequel may fracture the neighborhood and its playerbase.

“We’re trying to keep our community together,” Chiang says. “That’s why our updates are free. We don’t need to ask [players] to maneuver from ‘Minecraft 1’ to ‘Minecraft 2’. We need them to simply get pleasure from ‘Minecraft;.

“There’s different ways in which we are able to broaden which are extra significant and genuine to what we need to be, quite than simply releasing one other iteration in the way in which that almost all different franchises do.”

Fortnite Season 6 recently released, which is bound to maintain growing its participant depend, however it is going to be some time earlier than it reaches the monolithic heights of Minecraft. We’ll verify again in in 2026.

 
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Minecraft, MMO, Survival

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