PUBG Corp Should be Worried
John Ceccarelli, GIZORAMA – "What makes a Battle Royale game? Is it simply the core concept of last man standing, or is there more to it? While we can debate these factors, there’s one thing we can agree on; these games are massively popular. Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is the leader in this genre, and it hasn’t even been fully released. The Early Access game (PC-only today, will be on Xbox at some point soon) has sold over 15 million copies, has hosted a massive $350k prize pool tournament, and has another $200k tournament coming up. PUBG came out after H1Z1’s King of the Kill, but immediately stole the market share as the dominant game in the genre. A few other titles have tried to mimic the magic (GTAV Online even put their hat into the ring), but none have been very successful. That is, until Epic released a new game mode for their survival game, Fortnite. This made Bluehole, the developers of PUBG, extremely concerned, which they should be."
