Epic Games Store hits nearly 300 million PC users in 2024

Summary

• Epic Games has released its review for 2024, showing an increase in users of the Epic Games Store on PC to 295 million, with nearly 900 million cross-platform accounts, including Fortnite on mobile, console and other devices.
• However, revenue for third-party game sales on PC has decreased by 18% from $310mto$255m.
• The top three games in terms of player spend and engagement were all free to play, including Genshin Impact, Epic’s Rocket League and Honkai Star Rail, with the first paid game being Grand Theft Auto V.
• Epic plans to improve its mobile apps and add features such as voice chat and pre-loading to its PC client.
• The falling revenue for third-party games is a cause for concern, as it is likely that first-party games made more money than all of Epic’s third-party revenue put together in 2024.

By Imran Khan

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