Fortnite generated $9.1bn in revenue across 2018 and 2019, new documents from the ongoing Epic vs Apple lawsuit have shown.
This breaks down to $5.4bn in 2018 and a further $3.7bn in 2019, as reported in Epic’s internal financial presentation dated January 2020 (thanks, The Verge).
In terms of how that all translates into profit, Epic has previously said it made $5.5bn overall profit across those two years, and a further whopping $5.1bn profit just in 2020. This is profit across the whole of the business, including other games and the Epic Games Store (though we know this currently makes a loss), though Fortnite brings in the vast majority of all proceeds.
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Meanwhile, in a June 2020 document, Epic described Fortnite as “the largest game in the world” with 80.4 million monthly active users and 350 million player accounts at that time.
We’ve heard that 350 million account figure before, though the active users figure has not previously been made public. It’s not a metric Epic often discloses – though back in September 2018 it said Fortnite had 78.3m monthly players. 18 months later, the game has kept roughly the same number of players engaged.