Fortnite: Battle Royale Is Coming To Mobile, So When Is It Coming To Nintendo Switch?

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depending how well the mobile version is. i may get it.

Maybe I'm the only person in the universe... but it's the first time I heard about this game... and that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds also for that matter... I guess I'm not into that kind of games...

@maruse You mean you don't have a 10 year old little brother?

@TommyTLG No, but I have a 11 year old son... Who spends most of his waking hours with Splatoon 2

@maruse I guess you were living under a rock with your Switch, as both are some of the biggest titles on PC, despite PUBG being technically an indie game.

Now why would anyone want this without a keyboard and mouse and with extra cost for multiplayer? At least Fortnite is not made by a bunch of amateurs so it could run well on something.

Not my kind of thing (prefer singleplayer, story-based shooters) but would still be very happy for something like this to arrive on Switch.

Got Fortnite running on my sons PC which probably below Switch in spec. Ran well. Its clearly been optimised for different machines and as a free to play game they need it to reach the largest audience possible.

In terms of player base I would go as far as saying this is one the most important games at the moment and the Switch needs to be a part of that.

If it comes to Switch, it better support gyro-aiming.
All shooters should have that as an option.

You spelled the title of the game incorrectly in the headline
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Fortnite would be good for Switch but PUBG is far, far better.

Just not on consoles.

I'd say September. I stand by my prediction that it'll launch alongside the online.

What the hepic, Epic? I was lowkey expecting Fortnite to be announced yesterday, but I'm not really disappointed because instead we got Captain Toad, Undertale, Crash Bandicoot, Smash Bros, etc.

So console exclusive crossplay... So Sony went from "think of the children" no cross play to "best lock out other consoles out" crossplay

This game is coming for Nintendo 3DS?

@Scrummer I agree. Maybe not with the launch month, but the fact that it's probably going to come EVENTUALLY.

Lots of people watch people play Fortnite on Twitch - but who's watching those people? ..I'm sure that watching people watch people play Fortnite would be worth a watch!

@maruse Haha, I thought you said something very different about your son with waking hours! Almost had a heart attack! 😌

@subpopz Ah, true true ..totally agree with you about cross-play too - Sony's policy is absurd and, frankly, anti-consumer - one of a few reasons why I'd consider switching back to Xbox (for my secondary console) next gen tbh

It's massively popular game with my 11 year old and his friends. we don't let him play it (not a popular decision). It seems to be becoming a stick for the media to beat the games industry with at the moment re: violent content and it's affect on children's behavior.

@Curlynob I would never tell someone how to raise their kids, but I disagree on the whole violent content aspect. If we were talking about PUBG yeah I could see how some pretty violent gameplay. But Fortnite is much more cartoony in nature. In my opinion it's really no different than what a kid would see in any random cartoon.

@Nintendoforlife To be honest I was OK with him playing it, unfortunately his Mum walked into the room whilst he was frantically trying to attack someone with a pitchfork and that was that. We're here to be his parents not his friends, and if either us is unhappy about something we need to be united. There are tons of other games that he can play that we're both happy with. I do have a friend who is worried about her son playing Fortnite and his moody behavior afterwards though, and there was an article on Thismorning about it too - that's what I meant by the game becoming a stick for the media to beat up the video games industry with. I don't buy any of that BS. I've grown up playing video games and I know how magical they can be. If I'm not happy about my son's behavior he finds out about it pretty quickly and we act accordingly whatever the cause may be (he gets plenty of love and praise too).

The same could be asked for PUBG. Which I think maybe you guys already did?

And World of Tanks Blitz. And virtually any other tradional game that has been ported to mobile.

Answer is probably "it's coming if they see the business sense in it". Mobile is 500 million+ units, with an audience likely to be comfortable with microtransactions. Switch is currently a 15 million market of traditional players that shun micro transactions like the plague.

It's not the same business proposition that goes in to making it happen.

@AlexOlney Terrible Alex... Just... Just terrible...

@NinjaWaddleDee At this point I feel like it isn't "If" it's "When"

@Curlynob Yeah for sure, I have to nothing to say regardi what yup allow hi to play. You pay for the Internet, what he's allowed to do it is up to you. My post was really just about the whole violent nature of certain video games, and we appear to be of the same thinking on that topic. As far as your friend and her son's mood, speaking from experience I know certain video games can take competitive people to interesting places haha.

@TommyTLG you mean for your 10 year old brother to play... right?

I love it. Nintendo's fault here, really.

And now that it's on mobile, pretty much renders a switch version pointless.

I am not sure why people keep saying Fortnite is a kb/m game. It is a third person shooter, with crafting, those have been on console a long time. A buddy of mine built a very strong rig but only uses a co thriller to play all of his pc games. I guess it's just a preference.

My son loves this game on his PS4 - it is pretty great. I cannot imagine any purpose for this to come to IOS or Android. Without any real controls, shooters kinda suck on those platforms. This would rock on the Switch, though. The cartoony graphics would be a great match. Don't waste time and resources on an mediocre mobile game, bring this to switch!

Fort Knight - The new medieval tower defence game from 10tons.

I'm more interested in the original PvE mode than Battle Royale.

@Ooyah Ah, yeah - true! Good point!

This game is fun and the quick rounds would lend themselves well to Switch. My guess is we see it eventually. All that said, I still prefer the more traditional shooters to the battle royals.

How the heck can i compete mouse and keyboard players with touch controls on my iphone? I don't see how the controls can work.

A switch version would be cool, but 60$?

@dimi why do you think a switch port of the game would cost money? It’s free to play on PS4, pc and Xbox

I would totally play this on switch. If it can run on a phone, I’d love to play it with a real controller on my Switch in handheld mode

The announcement was that PS4 can play with mobile and pc and Xbox can play with mobile and pc but PS4 and Xbox cannot play together. And most iOS devices on iOS 11 (the iPhone 5s and above) have more horsepower than the switch. But I still think it could handle it.

@Winklebottom Well, it’s free so there’s really no risk in getting it.

@Whalehome I have a steelseries nimbus that works with my iPhone and iPad. It’s basically a nintendo pro controller.