Nintendo Switch is fast approaching its first birthday, and the hybrid console has been giving the PS4 and Xbox One plenty of competition.
In its first nine months the Switch has sold a staggering 10million units, despite widespread stock shortages at the start of its lifetime.
Nintendo are now hoping the Switch sells 16.7million in total during its first year, and then 20million units in its second year.
These are impressive sales targets, and the Switch has only been boosted in popularity thanks to its already enviable selection of games.
The Nintendo Switch was home to the two best reviewed games of 2017 – Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
And Switch owners have plenty more exclusives games to look forward to, with Pokemon Switch in the works and Metroid Prime 4, to name but a few titles.
However, it looks like the Nintendo Switch will not be getting one hugely popular game anytime soon.
Fortnite has enjoyed a meteoric rise, with Epic Games’ hit online shooter played by 45million across the globe in total.
Fortnite and the free Battle Royale mode is currently available to download right now on PS4, Xbox One and PCs.
And rumours have been swirling that the Nintendo Switch would be getting its own version soon.
However, the Fortnite team have given us an update about a possible Nintendo Switch release – and it may disappoint fans.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, Eric Williamson, Fortnite’s Lead Systems Designer, said: “Right now we’re focused on the game for PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
“Nothing to announce for other platforms right now!”
While it doesn’t look like you’ll be playing Fortnite on the Switch anytime soon, the “right now” suggests a release hasn’t been ruled out.
And after Williamson talked to Express.co.uk about a possible Fortnite release on the Switch, another major figure from Epic Games spoke out.
Donald Mustard, the worldwide creative director of Epic Games, was asked whether he was interested in bringing Fortnite to the Switch on Twitter.
And he replied: “Yes. Yes I am. Hopefully we do that at some point!”
So, for the time being the PS4 and Xbox One will remain the only systems that console gamers can jump on the Battle Bus on.
And while that may be a bitter pill for some Switch owners to swallow, don’t rule out a Fortnite release later on in 2018.
The news comes after Fortnite was hit by a major server outage on Thursday which caused servers to be offline for 14 hours.
Fortnite originally went down to prepare for the rollout patch V.2.3.0 which brought with it bug fixes, Battle Royale changes and finished up a event.
However, the Fortnite server downtime, which started around 9am, went on for much longer than anticipated.
Epic Games said during the downtime the Fortnite database ended up going into a “bad state”.
They took the decision to restore it from backup, but the first attempt failed – so they had to try and do it a second time.
At around 11pm GMT on Thursday, Fortnite finally came back online – much to the delight of Battle Royale fans.
When Fortnite went down, Epic Games published a detailed post explaining why it was offline for so long.
In a forum post they revealed: “During our downtime to upgrade to 2.3, we were performing recommended tasks to resolve a lingering database issue.
“Those tasks ended up causing the database to go into a bad state.
“After significant consideration, we decided our best option was to restore from a backup at the moment we took the servers down for the patch.
“Our first restore failed (due to issues unrelated with the quality of the backup) and we’re working on a second attempt at the restore.”