I think it's fair to say that Nvidia paid Epic to do this as a form of advertisement. They're about to have their tech in one of the most popular f2p games.
Well... hate to say it but I think the demographic of ages playing this would suprise you.
Most charts you find only look at 18-24 age onwards which is 63% of the total players. but someone did look at 10-25 and that made only 50% of the total users.
I think it's fair to say that Nvidia paid Epic to do this as a form of advertisement. They're about to have their tech in one of the most popular f2p games.
Since Fortnite itself isn't very hardware hungry, we'll have to wait for an RTX performance review, I guess. It's a game that definitely didn't need raytracing at all and I think it doesn't really look better with a somewhat cartoonish world and now super realistic reflections in the windows. The shadows under the car in the second screenshot looks nice, though.