Like two gunmen in an old Western, Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite have been circling each other for months.
Both have massive fan bases. Both seem to be on the verge of becoming esports. Both have developers scrambling to keep up with onslaughts of players hitting their servers each and every day. Both obviously share the same DNA, that of battle royale ArmA mods.
In the world of esports, it seems inevitable that the two will battle it out for viewership supremacy. On Twitch, they’re consistently in the top five games slots, regularly beating out the likes of League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Dota 2 — all without consistent tournament play.