{"id":106672,"date":"2020-01-03T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/love_it_or_hate_it_fortnite_made_more_money_than_any_other_game_in_2019"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:30:00","slug":"love-it-or-hate-it-fortnite-made-more-money-than-any-other-game-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/03\/love-it-or-hate-it-fortnite-made-more-money-than-any-other-game-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Love It Or Hate It, Fortnite Made More Money Than Any Other Game In 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fortnite<\/a><\/strong> might not be to everybody’s tastes, but there’s no denying how successful it is \u2013 in fact, last year it made more moolah than any other video game \u2013 a feat it achieved in 2018, too.<\/p>\n

According to Superdata, the game was the top earner in 2019 with a whopping $1.8 billion in revenue \u2013 although it’s worth noting that it suffered a 25 percent drop on the $2.4 billion it made in 2018. Superdata feels that the drop reflects the stabilisation of the game’s revenues after a sudden spike in popularity in 2018.<\/p>\n

Here are the top 10 earners in full:<\/p>\n

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As you can see, Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong> is also raking in the cash, bagging $1.4 billion in 2019 \u2013 an increase over the previous year. Interestingly, the report also found that free-to-play games accounted for 80 percent of all<\/em> digital games revenue during the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

By comparison, spending on PC and console ‘premium’ games \u2013 ones you actually have to pay for \u2013 dropped by 5 percent year-on-year. Here are the top earners:<\/p>\n

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The drop, according to Superdata, can be attributed to more big-hitters launching in 2018 than 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fortnite might not be to everybody’s tastes, but there’s no denying how successful it is \u2013 in fact, last year it made more moolah than any other video game \u2013 a feat it achieved in 2018, too. According to Superdata, the game was the top earner in 2019 with a whopping $1.8 billion in revenue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}