http://www.pcgamer.com/fortnites-pubg-style-battle-royale-mode-helps-push-it-past-seven-million-players/

Epic Games said on Twitter today that more than seven million people have taken a shot at its base-building FPS Fortnite. It's not clear exactly how that number breaks down—as we noted last week after it claimed one million players in one day for its Battle Royale mode, we don't know if it means concurrent players or total players or something else entirely—but it does seem like a pretty clear indicator of success, and it makes PUBG's aggrieved reaction to the mode a little bit easier to understand. 

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is, for now, only available on the PC, although PUBG Corp is working on bringing it to consoles. But Epic beat it to that lucrative punch with the release of Xbox One and PS4 versions of Fortnite, and Fortnite Battle Royale, in September. 1.6 million concurrent players on Steam is undeniably a huge success, but the console audience could be much larger, and much more lucrative to whoever can claim it.