Suspected PUBG-killer Black Ops 4 has not killed PUBG

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout mode is the first triple-A take on battle royale, and you might have seen a few predictions about how the mode would kill Fortnite or PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. You might’ve noticed that neither of those games are dead just yet, and with PUBG we have numbers to show exactly what effect Blackout has had on the game that started the battle royale craze. In short: not much. PUBG player count has been on a downward trend ever since hitting its astronomical peak back in January, and while that trend has continued over the past week there hasn’t been a significant difference since the launch of Black Ops 4. PUBG was down 4% this past weekend compared to the week previous, and that decline is actually a bit less than the usual. The folks at GitHyp did the math, though with a reliance on publically available Steam numbers, we can’t directly compare player counts against Black Ops 4 and Fortnite, both of which are exclusive to the launchers of their respective publishers.