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Fortnite’s App Store Absence Cost Over $1 Billion: Epic CEO


Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney revealed in an interview that the popular builder-shooter's absence from Apple platforms cost the company over $1 billion USD

An even bigger win came last week when a California court found Apple in “willful violation” of a 2021 injunction that prohibited the company from blocking rival payment methods in iOS apps. Fortnite made about $300 million from iOS users during the two years it was available on the platform, per Sweeney, and the game’s player count would likely only have gone up if it hadn’t been booted off. As for Fortnite ‘s iOS comeback, Sweeney said he’s confident the game will be able to return to iPhones later this week despite Apple’s plans to appeal U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s ruling.

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