'Fortnite' recently set a record for most non-event concurrent players, despite 'Apex Legends'.
BOILER-PIPE: Rumors of Fortnite's death have been greatly exaggerated. It happens every time a game becomes a global sensation: people develop this desire to declare the fad over when the truth of the matter is that any game capable of producing the amount of activity that Fortnite has tends to stick around for a long time, even if it inevitably peaks at some point.
6 million people playing on Saturday, February 16. That's even during an ostensible"break" in the development schedule before the launch of Season 8. For some perspective on how this game has shifted the industry, you only need to look back to last February, when it set a world record for highest number of concurrent players in a game with 3.8 million. The ceiling is a whole lot higher now.
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