Apex Legends Confirmed To Go Mobile, Following Fortnite And PUBG

Apex Legends is becoming more and more popular, which gain a lot of reputation for Electronic Arts. Lately, in the investors call yesterday, CEO of EA Andrew Wilson confirmed that Apex Legends is coming to mobile platforms.

Apex Legends will be brought to mobile and to China

To be more specific, the publisher and developer of Apex Legends were exceptionally satisfied with the game’s success. After that, EA wants to extend its scope and releasing the mobile version of the game. The company stated that Apex Legends is already being developed on mobile platforms, and it is making negotiations to bring the game to China. You can read his statement below:

“We are hugely excited about the future of Apex Legends ... We're in advanced negotiations to bring Apex Legends to China and to mobile, and we will update you on time frames when those negotiations are concluded”.

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EA didn’t provide exact information on the discharge dates or specific platform, but we can safely say that Android and iOS are in the shortlist.

EA needs this expansion

Regarding the successful examples of its biggest competitors – Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Apex Legends coming mobile platform is an understandable move of EA. Since the game is increasingly famous right now, it’s an excellent chance for EA to boost the game’s popularity and make more money in the process.

Additionally, EA has admitted that it’s yearly profits dropped considerably in the first quarter of 2019, in spite of Apex Legends’ successful debut. The company’s other great title – Anthem – is reported failed to meet its expectations.

Although successfully released, Anthems failed to meet EA's expectations

Consequently, porting Apex Legends to mobile devices will be a precise strategy to make up for the loss, while waiting for another big title to arrive.

But it has to overcome some technical difficulties

Apex Legends’ debut on mobile devices will be very likely successful. But first, the company has to get over some technical obstacles.

Unlike Fortnite and PUBG, the title’s special abilities that make the game stands out such as Ultimates, the ping system, … make the game quite harder to be ported on mobile. Apex Legends’ graphics quality would also suffer a decent degradation when it appeared on mobile devices. But if EA and Respawn somehow come up with some solutions for those challenges, it’s expectable that the game would be even more successful than it currently is.