, a free set of tools to help power online games. Among other features, it lets developers enable cross-play in their games across Windows, Mac, and Linux, with support for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Apple iOS, and Android coming soon.
Epic Online Services uses the tech behind"Fortnite" to help developers bring their games to every platform.Sweeney says that the industry is very focused on only putting certain types of games on certain platforms — the conventional wisdom for years has held that intense action shooters like"Fortnite" have no place on the smartphone, where puzzle games and simple arcade-style titles rule the roost.
"The genre thing is overrated, and the platform decisions are overrated," Sweeney says."It's what we see on 'Fortnite,' so many of these gamers play on a variety of devices, so you can't say they're a mobile gamer or a console gamer. They're just a gamer." "We're a company that's gone through many cycles and evolutions, and every time we have a major success we double down and use the money from that to fund our initiatives and so forth," says Sweeney.