Fortnite pulls this same stunt on iOS as well and it's rather disingenuous as you are lulled into thinking the game isn't that large when you see the app store size and then it drops this 1.9GB bomb on you once you launch it.
#Fortnite game full#
The 90MB game you downloaded wasn't actually the full game at all but more like an installer and it will then download 1.9GB of data. Once you start the game, you are faced with another hurdle. Uninstalling it made no difference and the game was still accessible. The game can clearly download new data on its own so it's curious what the launcher does.
#Fortnite game update#
It's not clear what the purpose of the launcher is beyond this point, whether it will be used to update the game or not. The launcher does nothing but download the 90MB or so game, which then sits alongside the launcher in your app drawer. Why Samsung had to distribute the launcher through its store and not the game itself is confounding.
#Fortnite game install#
This is the same launcher that other Android phones will be downloading later from Epic Games website to install the game.
Once you download the game from the Galaxy Apps store, you realize it's not actually the game itself but the game launcher. Perhaps Samsung doesn't take a cut from Epic Games for transactions or perhaps Samsung paid a hefty amount to have it on its store. I'm not sure why the game is available on Samsung's store and not Google's.
Samsung devices have it a bit easy, as you can go to the Galaxy Apps store and download the game from there. Since we have already reviewed the game back when it released on iOS, we won't be discussing it in detail again and will mostly focus on the Android port and its differences and similarities to the iOS version.įor starters, installing the game is not as easy as simply hopping on to the Google Play Store and downloading it. Most importantly, the game being released right now is still in beta, and not the final release we saw on iOS.īut it's finally here and we have it installed on a Samsung Galaxy S9+, which is probably the best way to experience the game on this platform right now. Even though that was short lived, the game is still not available to every Android device, with only a few hand-picked devices being supported right now. Then it had a timed exclusivity with Samsung devices. The company first announced it won't be releasing the game on the Google Play Store but through its own website. Unfortunately, the launch of the Android version hasn't been the smoothest. Or perhaps, not so late if the objective here was to rejuvenate interest in the game and start the hype cycle all over again. The Android version of the game is understandably very late when compared to other platforms. Since then, the game got a release on iOS earlier this year in April and couple of months ago on Nintendo Switch. Fortnite for Android is the final piece of the puzzle that started out in September of last year with the release of the Fortnite Battle Royale mode on consoles, PC and Mac.
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