Google offered Epic $147 million to launch Fortnite on the Play store

Google has confirmed in court that Epic was offered a $147 million deal to launch its hit game Fortnite on Android’s Google Play store. The deal, which Google’s VP of Play partnerships Purnima Kochikar says was approved and presented to Epic but not accepted, would have seen the money dispensed over a three-year period of “incremental funding” to the games publisher.

The “contagion” documents came up in court on Tuesday when Lawrence Koh, the now-former head of Google Play’s games business development, took the stand. They forecasted Google’s concerns that virtually all top game developers could defect from Play within a couple of years of Epic’s decision, costing Google a total of billions of dollars in revenue.

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