Call of Duty: Warzone has six million players after 24 hours

Call of Duty: Warzone has reached six million players within 24 hours. With that, the popularity of the free-to-play battle royale game is increasing much faster than that of the Apex Legends and Fortnite in the beginning.

Call of Duty: Warzone released Tuesday and on Twitter the Call of Duty account reports the number of players. It is not known how many players have already owned Modern Warfare and how many people have downloaded the free expansion separately. The game is available for free for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Analyst Daniel Ahmad compares the numbers with Apex Legends and Fortnite numbers when those games just came out. The former game had 2.5 million players after one day at the beginning of last year and ten million players after three days. No details are known about Fortnite from the first day; after two weeks the counter stood at ten million players.

Fortnite eventually grew to more than two hundred million players with the addition of mobile versions. Call of Duty: Warzone will probably not get such a mobile variant, because there is already a mobile Call of Duty game with battle royale mode. The Android version alone has been installed more than 50 million times.