Fortnite for Android is going to bypass the Google play store

There is no fortnite for Android release date yet but when it does launch you won't find it among the game app in the Google play store.

Instead you'll have to download fortnite for Android from the company website.

This is an unprecedented move for a game with as big an audience as fortnite enjoys. Epic has given two reasons for this move, the first is that they want a more direct connection with its audience similar to how epic games handles fortnite on pc. The second likely bigger reason is that epic doesn't want to share its money with Google, which would take a 30% cut if the game was on the Google play store.


Fortnite is one of the most popular games around right now so regardless of its release strategy it will find an audience. But It will be interesting to see how the game performs outside of the play store and whether or not this is a sign of things to come.

What does it mean?


We don't know how this will affect fortnite its audience or even the Android app ecosystem as a whole fortnite made $15 million during its first three weeks on ios alone we're no mathematicians but 30% of that it's a lot of money. We can definitely see the logic epic is following with this release strategy.

But will It work? That much remains to be seen. There will be some security concerns with this approach and it will surely bring some scammers out of the woodworks that may try to get people to download fake. Apk. Sweeney doesn't seems to worried about this saying that gamers have proven able to adopt safe software practices and gaming has thrived on the open pc platform through many sources.


We'll continue to follow fortnite for Android including keeping a lookout for that mystery release date.