A sealed 2017 physical Xbox One copy of Fortnite sold for $42,500 at Heritage Auctions after receiving 29 bids. The copy carried a PSA grade of 10 A++, the highest possible grade. Fortnite had a limited physical release in 2017 despite being best known as a free digital game. The Battle Royale version of Fortnite earned $2.4 billion in a single year, the most digital revenue any game has made in one year. The $42,500 sale is far below the record hard-copy game sale of an original 1985 Super Mario Bros. copy for $2 million in 2021. Notable athletes including JuJu Smith-Schuster and Josh Hart have played Fortnite, with Hart calling himself the best player in the league in 2018.
"A 2017 physical copy of Epic Games' Fortnite sold for a whopping $42,500 last Friday on Heritage Auctions. The sealed Xbox One copy received an overall grade of 10 A++, the highest grade possible, according to PSA's listing. The copy received 29 bids before reaching its final total."
"Fortnite, best known for being available digitally for free, received a limited physical release in 2017, a year before the Battle Royale game earned $2.4 billion -- more digital revenue in a single year than any game in history. The $42,500 total is far from the largest amount ever spent on a hard copy video game. That honor belongs to an original 1985 copy of Super Mario Bros. on Nintendo that sold for $2 million in 2021."
"Athletes such as NFL wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster and NBA guard Josh Hart have been noted players of the game through the years. In 2018, Hart called himself the best Fortnite player in the league."
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