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Fortnite is in its seventh year, yet it’s still the most popular videogame. Bringing the Chapter 1 map turned out to be the right move for Epic Games, who’s had a lot of success over the past few days. The battle royale game keeps breaking big records and getting millions of concurrent players, which is very impressive.
On Saturday, Fortnite had its best day ever. Around 44.7 million players logged into the game on this day, which is an all-time record for a daily number of players. In addition to this, the concurrent player count peaked at 6.2 million, another impressive stat.
However, what’s even more impressive is the engagement rate the game had on the OG Season launch day. Here’s all you need to know about it.
Fortnite is the most popular game on gaming consoles
Fortnite has been very popular on all gaming platforms for the past few years. However, it’s dominated the console market and has been the most downloaded free PlayStation game for a long time. According to Circana’s Player Engagement Tracker, the launch day of the new season was especially dominant.
The tracker shows that 38% of all active Xbox players played Fortnite on the launch day. On PlayStation, the engagement rate was 33%, meaning that one-third of all active players on Friday played the battle royale game.
Considering that Friday wasn’t even the most popular day, these percentages likely increased over the weekend. Even before the release of the OG Season, Fortnite was the most popular game that was way ahead of its competition, which shows how dominant the game has been.
The current season will last until December 2, and Epic Games will likely release Fortnite Chapter 5 after it. While the game developer hasn’t said anything regarding the Chapter 1 map, we expect it to stay in the game as a separate mode.
