If it wasn't already, Fortnite is officially a mainstream phenomenon. After last night's stream where Drake played with Twitch streamer Ninja, and broke the individual channel viewership record on Twitch, the game is at a new zenith in popularity.
While PUBG is the obvious origin point for the popularity of battle royale as a game genre, Fortnite has officially overtaken PUBG, and is now approaching critical mass levels, particularly after Drake and company helped get people talking about the game during the Ninja stream. It's amazing what free-to-play can do, folks:

How does Fortnite compare to perhaps the defining game of the 2010s, Minecraft" Uhh, quite well, it turns out. Fortnite already was a bigger trend than Minecraft in February, and its recent events have the game being easily the most-talked about game, period. Certainly, there's room for it to even out once some of the hype around the game after its mobile announcement and Drake association fizzle out, but Fortnite sure looks like it is here.
As an aside, I would be very bearish on Minecraft's popularity going forward. The booth at PAX South was surprisingly sparsely-attended. This was right next to the Mixer booth, which was popping off with free giveaways and games to play. Many of the Minecraft players are getting older, and moving to other games or even Roblox [Free]. In fact, Roblox definitely looks like a second place game to Minecraft in popularity right now, but it's definitely a fighter.

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