Stay service video games is perhaps struggling greater than ever, however when you had been to take a look at Fortnite and its latest accomplishment, you most likely could not inform.

Regardless of how a lot some corporations would possibly need increasingly more dwell service video games, it is not precisely a good time for them – the hotly anticipated multiplayer spin-off of The Final of Us was cancelled nearly a yr in the past now, and I do not suppose I must remind you about this yr’s Harmony state of affairs. After which there’s Fortnite, which simply featured its Remix: The Finale in-game occasion to wrap up Remix Chapter 2 forward of Chapter 6, season 1. These occasions usually do fairly properly, that includes every kind of musical artists, and this time it included some massive names like Eminem, Ice Spice, Snoop Dogg, and Juice Wrld. However how did it do players-wise? Oh, it simply introduced in a cool 14 million gamers on the identical time.

“You. Confirmed. Up,” reads a tweet from the official Fortnite account. “Greater than 14 million concurrent gamers partied up for Remix: The Finale and greater than 3 million estimated folks streamed it on-line. This can be a new Fortnite all-time file for an in-game live performance – thanks!” That earlier file belonged to Travis Scott’s “Astronomical” in-game live performance from 2020, which introduced in 12.3 million gamers, in order that’s a rise of virtually two million folks. These are some fairly wild numbers for a sport that is been round since 2017 (its battle royale mode it is now famously identified for, anyway).

As a reminder, final yr Epic Video games laid off round 900 of its staff, claiming in October of this yr that it is now “financially sound”. Clearly Epic does not solely do Fortnite, it additionally has its personal storefront and Unreal Engine, however fairly clearly in a behemoth like Fortnite it has nothing to fret about.