Daily active users are 31.3 million, an increase of 192 percent, with a peak of 13 million concurrent players in 2020. They also stated that they have over 160 million Epic Games Store PC users. According to documents (via Ars Technica), Epic's storefront chocked up a $181 million loss in 2019, with the company projecting to lose $273 million and $139 million on the Epic Games Store in 20, respectively. While these are some impressive numbers, the Epic Games Store is set to operate at another loss in 2021. That's against overall sales of $700 million, and an increase in monthly active users from 32 million in 2019, to 56 million in December 2020. That's an enormous financial commitment, which in 2020 saw a return of $265 million on third party games. We've learned that Epic have spent an astronomical $444 million on exclusivity deals in 2020, designed to bring games to the Epic Games Store, with the guarantee they will stay off Steam for at least a year. This means that a huge amount of data has become available. The makers of Fortnite have been embroiled in a pretty ugly lawsuit with Apple. READ MORE: Does Steam accept Bitcoin: 2021 update Epic Games So let's take a look at the latest figures, and see how these two companies are doing. Thanks to their ongoing dispute with Apple, Epic Games have given us a remarkable insight into just what it takes, to try and claim a slice of the PC gaming pie. While the PC storefront is growing, Epic's mobile side is still embroiled in the ongoing legal battle between Apple, Google, and Epic Games, which expanded into the UK last week.Įpic Games said it plans to rapidly expand the catalog of new games available on its storefront in 2021 by providing developers with self-publishing tools for Epic Games Store, which it will detail further in the future.The battle for market share between Epic Games and Steam has been really heating up since Epic launched their storefront back in 2018. The giveaway resulted in 13 million average peak concurrent users over the course of Epic Games' The Vault campaign.Įpic has still been expanding its presence, securing an early 2021 PC exclusive in Hitman 3 and acquiring a shopping mall as its new headquarters. The company says it's up to 31.3 million daily players active on the platform, a 192% increase from 2019, and its monthly active users in December rose to 56 million from 32 million the year prior.įor comparison, Steam this month reported 120 million monthly active players during 2020.īeyond Fortnite, the most popular titles on the Epic Games Store include games like Rocket League, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Satisfactory, and Borderlands 3.Īnother popular title was Grand Theft Auto 5, which was offered for free on the Epic Games Store for a limited time last year, causing severe technical problems as users logged on to redeem it. 103 games were offered for free, with a total of over 749 million free games claimed by users, which averages out to over 7.2 million copies per title given away. The number of games available also grew, from 190 in 2019 to 471 games available in 2020. It wasn't entirely due to Fortnite, as third-party games constituted $265 million, or 37%. Epic Games today announced that it hit over 160 million users on the Epic Games Store for PC in 2020, and users spent over $700 million on the storefront over the course of the year.
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