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The two giants are part of a race to become something akin to the YouTube of gaming.
We’re racing toward a world where Fortnite and Roblox could rival Steam and the App Store in terms of the size of their game libraries. Both have growing ecosystems of millions of players who build and spend time in custom battle royales, chat rooms, and all kinds of other games. We’re looking at the fight for what could be the next YouTube.
While the two giants may be the biggest in the space, they are far from the only companies building out a catalog of tools that make the jump from game playing to game making far simpler than traditional game engines Unity or Unreal. All sorts of platforms, including the browser-based dot big bang and the top-down-focused CliCli, are looking for a piece of a market that already holds the attention of hundreds of millions of players.
“[UGC] is a very critical thing, right?” Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney tells The Verge of how user-generated content and his vision of the metaverse mix. “The future is primarily about the work of everybody in the world, and we’re a very small, small part of that.”
