Knives Out beats Fortnite in sales revenue in 2018
A report from SensorTower says that Fortnite, which grossed $455 million last year, was beat by Knives Out, another battle royale game, by roughly $10 million, with $465 million total. With all of the Fortnite’s momentum, the fact that a rather unknown game beat it out seems baffling.
But that is becausethe success of Knives Out isn’t based around the United States, which represents less than one percent of their 2018 revenue. Their success is more well known in Japan, where it is the country’s most popular battle royale title. A massive 80 percent of Knives Out’s revenue last year came from Japan, with SensorTower pointing out that it is around 11 times more than what rival PUBG Mobile did in the country.
Sales in China were very strong as well. Although the country only represents around 18 percent of Knives Out’s revenue, that amounts to around $81 million in sales. This is thanks to the game’s ability to accept in-app payments from users in the country.
Although they are not the top grossing game of 2018, Fortnite still has massive momentum, continually breaking records that led to their $455 million gross last year. New installations in December rose 59 percent over November, with the game being downloaded 82.6 million times overall on Apple’s App Store as of December.
Thanks to Fortnite’s massive success, Epic Games is now worth somewhere around $8 billion. The game’s success has led Epic to create their own game store that fully intends on rivalling Valve’s Steam Store.
Gabe Newell and Tim Sweeney, CEOs of Valve and Epic respectively, are also feuding on Bloomberg’s billionaires index, with Sweeney edging out Newell at number 195. NetEase CEO William Ding, however, trounces them both at number 74.
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Mario350Posted:
good finally a good game beats a crap game that no one should play, im happy even if knifes out is mobile only thats still amazing to see it beat a sh*t game
Two_FacedPosted:
lugiaisbeast101Two_FacedSassEskShadowZ There is absolutely no way this can be true. Just doing a simple search on youtube "knives IPhone game" doesn't even return a result. Never heard of this game until now, there is no way it could have beat Fortnite in sales for 2018.
probably because its called Knives out hurrdurr i know things
Also literally says that 1% of revenue came from US. was much much more popular in Japan and China (combined they have much higher population than the US)
First thing I thought was this must be big in China. But the US is no small fry by any means. We are the 3rd most populated country in the world. I've also never heard of this game until now. If it's true, good for them. I do however, highly doubt this is factual becuse Fortnite is also HUGE in China. When I was in Beijing a couple months ago everyone played Fortnite. Beijing is also the 3rd most populated city in the world. I find this extremely hard to believe. Most likely fake news.
This is for mobile sales though. Due to regulations, in game purchases aren't allowed for PUBG and Fortnite yet on mobile (Japan & China). That's not an issue for Knives Out, it got a few hundred million in Japan alone.
I guess I should have read the article before I commented. But after I did, still doesn't say anything about mobile. They should probably include that in the article.
lugiaisbeast101Posted:
Two_FacedSassEskShadowZ There is absolutely no way this can be true. Just doing a simple search on youtube "knives IPhone game" doesn't even return a result. Never heard of this game until now, there is no way it could have beat Fortnite in sales for 2018.
probably because its called Knives out hurrdurr i know things
Also literally says that 1% of revenue came from US. was much much more popular in Japan and China (combined they have much higher population than the US)
First thing I thought was this must be big in China. But the US is no small fry by any means. We are the 3rd most populated country in the world. I've also never heard of this game until now. If it's true, good for them. I do however, highly doubt this is factual becuse Fortnite is also HUGE in China. When I was in Beijing a couple months ago everyone played Fortnite. Beijing is also the 3rd most populated city in the world. I find this extremely hard to believe. Most likely fake news.
This is for mobile sales though. Due to regulations, in game purchases aren't allowed for PUBG and Fortnite yet on mobile (Japan & China). That's not an issue for Knives Out, it got a few hundred million in Japan alone.
Two_FacedPosted:
SassEskShadowZ There is absolutely no way this can be true. Just doing a simple search on youtube "knives IPhone game" doesn't even return a result. Never heard of this game until now, there is no way it could have beat Fortnite in sales for 2018.
probably because its called Knives out hurrdurr i know things
Also literally says that 1% of revenue came from US. was much much more popular in Japan and China (combined they have much higher population than the US)
First thing I thought was this must be big in China. But the US is no small fry by any means. We are the 3rd most populated country in the world. I've also never heard of this game until now. If it's true, good for them. I do however, highly doubt this is factual becuse Fortnite is also HUGE in China. When I was in Beijing a couple months ago everyone played Fortnite. Beijing is also the 3rd most populated city in the world. I find this extremely hard to believe. Most likely fake news.
SassPosted:
EskShadowZ There is absolutely no way this can be true. Just doing a simple search on youtube "knives IPhone game" doesn't even return a result. Never heard of this game until now, there is no way it could have beat Fortnite in sales for 2018.
probably because its called Knives out hurrdurr i know things
Also literally says that 1% of revenue came from US. was much much more popular in Japan and China (combined they have much higher population than the US)
EskShadowZPosted:
There is absolutely no way this can be true. Just doing a simple search on youtube "knives IPhone game" doesn't even return a result. Never heard of this game until now, there is no way it could have beat Fortnite in sales for 2018.
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