{"id":35834,"date":"2018-07-27T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/323117"},"modified":"2018-07-27T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T19:56:00","slug":"fortnite-cosmetics-possibly-taking-revenue-from-top-console-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/27\/fortnite-cosmetics-possibly-taking-revenue-from-top-console-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite cosmetics possibly taking revenue from top console games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The appeal of Fortnite’s<\/em> cosmetics\u00a0are eating up the\u00a0competition around\u00a0other console franchises, according to a report published by market research firm\u00a0Superdata<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This may not come as much of a surprise, as the free-to-play game recently\u00a0earned\u00a0over $1 billion so far from in-game purchases alone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Superdata’s analysis estimates that sales from\u00a0Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>cosmetic and skins\u00a0alone are masking a six percent drop of combined revenue from microtransactions and in-game content sales of other console titles across the globe.<\/p>\n

The report also shows a\u00a049 percent increase of revenue from in-game sales on consoles, and mentions how Activision Blizzard and EA Games noted\u00a0in their financial\u00a0reports that\u00a0Fortnite<\/em>\u00a0introduced more players to their games, which lead to increased\u00a0sales as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Superdata\u00a0emphasizes that when\u00a0Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>is excluded from this analysis, there’s a six percent revenue drop across the entire industry as a whole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The six percent drop includes sales figures of what Superdata\u00a0lists as “top 50 digital console titles”, and while those titles aren’t explicitly provided,\u00a0it can be assumed to include titles like\u00a0EA’s sports games such as\u00a0FIFA 19<\/em>, and\u00a0Blizzard’s\u00a0Overwatch.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

SuperData\u00a0also believes the drop when removing\u00a0Fortnite<\/em>\u00a0is not a coincidence, explaining that\u00a0Fortnite\u00a0<\/em>players might be taking money they would spend in other console games on cosmetics and the seasonal Battle Pass instead and\u00a0called that relation a “material cannibalization across top incumbent franchises.”<\/p>\n

On top of revealing how Fortnite<\/em> encourages players from spending money on other games in favor of cosmetic upgrades, Superdata also suggests the game might be cannibalizing online viewership.<\/p>\n

The analysis reports\u00a0Fortnite<\/em>‘s<\/em>\u00a0audience on streaming services like Twitch has increased 59 percent in the last three months, while CS:GO<\/em> viewership dropped 51 percent,\u00a0Overwatch\u00a0<\/em>viewership dropped 16 percent,\u00a0and League of Legends<\/em>\u00a0viewership dropped 19 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To read the entire Superdata\u00a0analysis, click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The appeal of Fortnite’s cosmetics\u00a0are eating up the\u00a0competition around\u00a0other console franchises, according to a report published by market research firm\u00a0Superdata. This may not come as much of a surprise, as the free-to-play game recently\u00a0earned\u00a0over $1 billion so far from in-game purchases alone. Superdata’s analysis estimates that sales from\u00a0Fortnite\u00a0cosmetic and skins\u00a0alone are masking a six percent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35834","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=35834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}