The battle royale mode has spiked in popularity over the past year and is now expected to make $20 billion in 2019, according to analysts at Business Insider.
After it was reported that Fortnite passed the $1 billion mark from in-game purchases alone, the profits made from the battle royale genre are expected to increase approximately seven times their total in 2018, which is foreseen to be $2 billion for the current year.
As more studios join the battle royale trend, those numbers are expected to increase again to be twelve-fold within just two years.
Treyarch has already confirmed a battle royale mode for Call of Duty Black Ops 4 called Blackout, with only releasing minimal details on what it will entail. The map is said to be 1,500 times bigger than average Call of Duty maps and will integrate different multiplayer maps and playable characters from the Black Ops games into the mode. A beta for Blackout was recently announced to release in Sept. on PlayStation 4.
EA teased a battle royale mode last month for the upcoming Battlefield Vwhich is set to release on Oct. 19. Little details of the mode were revealed, but DICE promised more details will come later this year.
As Fortnight comes upon its one year anniversary, a special in-game Birthday Event has just been announced for July 24, letting players unlock special anniversary items. West Coast Customs recently teamed up with PUBG to create a one-of-a-kind PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds bus that is on display at San Diego Comic-Con and will be given away as a grand prize for the Xbox One Summer of PUBG sweepstakes.
