Fortnite, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Fortnite comes up
Tiktok, Apple and Temu
- ▶ 5:45 Benedict Evans And the funny thing is, like, we had this argument, like, two years ago, or whenever it was, when Epic pulled their, their PR stunt of deliberately breaking Apple's rules and getting kicked out in Fortnite.
No Soup for You! Regulating tech M&A
- ▶ 17:35 Benedict Evans And so there's this whole question, is there a space in the middle, which is Roblox, and Minecraft, and maybe Fortnite, although that seems to have disappeared now, or mostly faded away.
Metaverse - how to be wrong in the right way
- ▶ 7:03 Benedict Evans A friend of mine is playing Fortnite. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:52 Benedict Evans But within that, like, it doesn't mean anything to say that you're going to make Fortnite interoperable with Candy Crush.
- ▶ 28:14 Benedict Evans Um, you, you have sort of, which is a contrast to sort of talking about FIFA or Fortnite and so on.
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 32:01 Benedict Evans Which obviously you also can't do, like, you couldn't run Fortnite on this, you couldn't run Twitter on this.
The Meta reality
- ▶ 11:22 Benedict Evans Um, like real games, like, like kind of intense, immersive games, not just kind of puzzle games, not Candy Crush, like Fortnite. 2 times in the scene
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 4:36 Benedict Evans So, you know, games will break out and become more universal, and that's something to do with Fortnite and,
- ▶ 12:37 Benedict Evans Whatever that is, or whatever that might be, the cool cultural stuff you do, and that is some of what Fortnite is, and it's some of what Instagram and TikTok are, and some of what Snapchat is, and some of what Roblox is, is that cool…
- ▶ 24:11 Toni Cowan-Brown And we've spoken here about Roblox and Fortnite, both of which, you know, we've gone into detail, some amount of detail, but they're both kind of trying to create that bridge between the online space and the real world economy and actually… 2 times in the scene
Games and Roblox
- ▶ 3:17 Benedict Evans Yeah, it was all experimental budget, and so you've got all these building blocks of, like, you've got the lo-fi thing, you've got the script with the freeform world, the network, the way you can make stuff, of course, the way you can buy… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:17 Benedict Evans And so this has been an argument about Fortnite. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:53 Toni Cowan-Brown Because the numbers, the numbers were interesting, and I was just sharing with you before, just like, you know, the Scott Chavik concert in Fortnite, and he made eight, twenty million out of that, and I think the Fortnite concert was one… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:04 Benedict Evans And that's a very, very different monetization model from both Fortnite and Roblox. 4 times in the scene
App stores: arguing like it's 2009
- ▶ 12:55 Benedict Evans Like, Apple isn't doing a first-person shooter multiverse game that competes with Fortnite.
Why do we care about games?
- ▶ 3:17 Benedict Evans Secondly, um, you have these sort of swirling massive conversations around, like, Metaverse, Fortnite, you know, social gaming, people hanging out in the game, people doing pop culture, pop concerts inside Fortnite, um, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:39 Benedict Evans Is that what's happening with Fortnite?
- ▶ 14:10 Toni Cowan-Brown Intersection that it's having right now with pop culture, with Travis Scott hosting, um, was it hosting his concert within Fortnite? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:14 Benedict Evans So, you know, the other, so, so this is a joke that like the three biggest e-sports categories are, um, League of Legends, Fortnite, and NASDAQ. 3 times in the scene