The Battle Royale will generate a turnover of 20.1 billion dollars (17 billion euros) in 2019, states market researcher Superdata. The genre has become very popular due to titles like Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
A battle-royal game is a large group of players being dropped at /in the same location. Then they have to beat each other until one player remains. That player is then the winner. Superdata expects that battle-royal games will generate a lot of revenue, especially on gaming computers. According to the researchers, a turnover of 10.5 billion dollars will be made in 2019. Battle royal games on PC and smartphones have to yield 6.3 billion and 3.3 billion dollars respectively.
In the past year games within this genre were responsible for a turnover of 12.6 billion dollars. In 2017, only 1.7 billion dollars were converted by battle-royal games.
