Epic Games’ return of Fortnite to iOS in Europe comes with a big Apple concession at a complex time for the gaming industry
Despite its popularity on console and PC, parent Epic Games cut 830 jobs last yearAfter four years of exile from the world’s biggest mobile entities, Fortnite is finally regaining some of the platform proliferation it had when it became a household name.
The Middle East and Africa now have nearly 560 million gamers, a lead of more than 100 million compared with Europe. Given that Fortnite isn’t available in China, which heavily regulates things such as in-game purchases for consumer bases with children, getting Fortnite on phones in emerging mobile markets is a big priority.
Epic knows what it’s like to do those numbers. Before Fortnite was nixed by Apple and Google from mobile stores,it had already earned $1 billion from mobile revenue by April 2020, a span of two years since it first launched on mobile platforms.
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