Has Fortnite just broken its record for the number of simultaneous online players? Everything leads us to believe so. Despite the editor's recommendation to connect 30 minutes before the event, the servers were saturated. A failure that even the Travis Scott concert failed to trigger. For the moment, we don't know the official figures for the number of in-game players, but needless to say that it must be spectacular.
A total of 12 million players attended the show directly in-game. Adding in all the people who have since followed it live, yesterday's event became the most watched event in the history of gaming in the West.
People who arrived too late then fell back on live shows so as not to miss the event despite everything. As a result, 2.3 million viewers were gathered on Twitch and more than 6 million on YouTube. On the French side, Michou achieves the feat of bringing together more than 300,000 people live.
Once again, the expectation proves that the game still unites as much and that, despite the criticism, the expectation is still enormous as the new seasons approach.
Original content by Maxime "Biaggi" Ricoveri.
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