Newzoo: 38% of Apex Legends PC players also playing CS: GO and Valorant
That's why developers decided to add the new fast 3vs3 mode.
Newzoo is explaining by numbers, why Respawn Entertainment decided to add a new “Arena” mode with fast 3vs3 battles on small maps.
The reason is that 38% of Apex Legends PC audience also playing CS: GO and Valorant. Developers decided that they might want to see the mode which is similar to those games.
37% of the new Apex Legends audience, that is playing CS: GO and Valorant, came to the game only after the mode release.
Apex Legends had 22.6M MAU in May 2021 - 12.8M on consoles and 9.78 million on PC.
15% of Valorant PC audience churned to Apex Legends in May 2021. With the CS: GO 10.4% of the audience churned to Apex Legends.
Around half of Apex Legends players are male under the age of 35.