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Streaming mogul Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than other media companies like Game of Thrones and True Detective producer HBO.
[...] It's a notable comparison that highlights not only how incredulously popular Epic's last-man-standing shooter has become, but also how its impact is now being felt by some of the biggest names outside of the games industry.
Indeed, it's easy to see why Netflix considers Fortnite a main rival. The free-to-play title is available on almost every platform imaginable, from consoles and PCs to smartphones, and hit 8.3 million concurrent players before Christmas.
Is Netflix right? Is gaming a bigger long-term threat to streaming services than the streaming services are to each other?
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Netflix Claims Fortnite is Now a Bigger Competitor than HBO
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @01:25AM (6 children)
Can someone explain fortnite's popularity to me? It doesn't seem like this game is any different than dozens of first person shooters that came before it. Why this one?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @01:31AM (1 child)
"Can someone explain fortnite's popularity ?"
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The masses are a bunch of IDIOTS.
Fortnite is "popular" with them, in the same way that the "food" served at McDonald's is "popular" with idiots.
Popularity doesn't mean it's good : popularity just means a lot of idiots like it.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Monday January 21 2019, @07:36AM
Your friends say, "oh, let's eat at McDonald's -- or Wendy's or Burger King." Otherwise known as B.K. And I said to my tax guy, let's do B.K.'s, he did a double take. Anyway, your friends want to eat Fast Food with you, what do you do? What can you do -- you eat it, right? In massive amounts. And Fortnite is like Fast Food. It's not the fanciest. But it's very clean. And everybody enjoys it. wsj.com/video/three-boys-explain-why-they-play-fortnite-every-chance-they-get/14C90D13-03B1-440D-A024-B41C437F0C72.html [wsj.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Apparition on Monday January 21 2019, @01:42AM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by Rupert Pupnick on Monday January 21 2019, @01:49PM
Also extensive character customization including “dance moves” ...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by exaeta on Monday January 21 2019, @01:44AM
I don't play fortnight myself. But I know it's popular for the same reasons that Overwatch and TF2 are popular. The game is actually half decent.
The majority of modern shooter games are, frankly, garbage. TF2 pioneered the "shooter that doesn't suck" genre, and 8-9 years later people wondering why that game was still popular decided to emulate it a bit. So we got Overwatch, and then Fortnite decided to hop on the bandwagon.
Fortnite isn't a copy of TF2, but it has a lot of similarities to TF2/Rust. It basically took good parts from both.
Personally I don't play it but given the lack of decent shooter games that pose a challenge beyond "shoot faster and more accurately" Fortnite cements its place among the shooter games that don't suck.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @04:19PM
It's because they can get people to write articles like these.