The State of Play · April 2026

Newzoo's April rankings dropped this week. Four leaderboards — console revenue, PC revenue, console MAU, PC MAU. Eighty chart slots total. And out of fifty-plus games that made any list… only three games made all four. Fortnite. Minecraft. Apex Legends.

Three out of eighty. That's the all-four club. Fortnite is the obvious one. Minecraft is the quiet juggernaut — fifteen years old, still in everyone's top five. And Apex Legends — the chart is telling us something uncomfortable about its trajectory.

Look at this. EA owns one in every five chart positions on the planet. Fifteen slots out of eighty. FC, Madden, Apex, Battlefield, Sims, UFC, skate — stacked across every list. Blizzard is in second with eight. Then it drops off a cliff. The middle class of publishing is getting squeezed.

The number one console game by revenue last month — globally — is Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. A sequel to a 2013 Nintendo social sim. Switch only. Pokémon Pokopia is at #12 in the same chart. The Switch 2 launch window is still printing money a year out.

Marvel Rivals is fascinating. Top-13 on revenue, both platforms. Top-13 on console MAU. But on PC MAU? Gone. That is a whale economy in plain text. Big spend per player, smaller daily active base.

Newzoo themselves flagged this — League of Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, Apex Legends — all declining. April confirms it. Apex is still in our all-four club, but look at the ranks: 16 on console revenue, 13 on PC revenue, 10 and 14 on the MAU lists. This is the calendar tax — every live service eventually pays it.

Pearl Abyss has been swinging at Crimson Desert for nearly a decade. First month on Newzoo: top ten on both revenue charts. It's not on the MAU lists yet — single-player adventure games don't usually get there. The question is whether they have the post-launch content engine to keep it in the conversation.

Quick reality check. The four lists we just spent six minutes on — that's PC and console. Together: about $86 billion of the global market last year. Mobile alone? $103 billion. When we say Fortnite is one of three games eating the world… we mean the premium world.

Side by side. PC MAU — eight shooters and two battle arenas in the top 20. Console MAU — five EA sports games, Minecraft, ROBLOX, GTA. Same hardware generation, completely different player.

Quick recap. Three games own the world. EA owns the publishing chart. Nintendo's Switch tail is louder than anyone said. Marvel Rivals is a whale story. Live service is fading except where it isn't. Crimson Desert nailed the landing. Mobile is bigger than everything we just showed you. That's April 2026.