“Fallout 76” has found a whole new world of players thanks to the popularity of Amazon’s “Fallout” TV series. The Bethesda Game Studios title, which first launched in October 2018, has surpassed 20 million downloads and plays as of Wednesday.
That’s a jump from the 17 million players “Fallout 76” reached in December, ahead of the April 10 release of Jonathan Nolan’s “Fallout” TV adaptation on Prime Video.
“It’s been secretly popular for a while, but not at this level and it’s just really great for the entire studio,” said Bethesda director and executive producer Todd Howard, who oversees the “Fallout” franchise. Variety.
In the less than two months since the series premiered (and has already been picked up for a second season), daily active users of the “Fallout” video game franchise titles, developed and published by Bethesda, a division of Microsoft Gaming, have risen to over 600.% to over 5 million players.
“Depending on the Fallout game, you’ll see an increase in daily players by a factor of 4 to 6, which is more than anything I’ve ever seen in my 30 years of doing this,” Howard said. “It’s a big thing to have an event that brings so many people to the games that you have that have never played your games before. New players who have never played a game before or have never played any of our games. It is truly a unique moment.”
In addition, the total number of concurrent players in ‘Fallout 76’, ‘Fallout Shelter’, ‘Fallout 4’, ‘Fallout 3’ and ‘Fallout New Vegas’ has increased, while ‘Fallout 4’ and ‘Fallout 76’ are currently in the game . the Top 7 first-party Xbox Game Pass games per hour, along with Bethesda’s ‘Starfield’ and ‘Skyrim’.
Meanwhile, the TV series “Fallout” attracted 65 million viewers in its first 16 days of availability, according to Amazon Prime Video, with Season 1 dropping in its entirety on April 10. That makes it the second most watched title ever on television. platform and the most viewed title since its debut on “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” in 2022.
Based on the Bethesda franchise of the same name, the TV series “Fallout” is set two hundred years after the apocalypse. Rather than trying to follow a specific storyline from a “Fallout” video game, the drama simply focuses on “the friendly residents of luxury fallout shelters who are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are horrified if they have an There is an incredibly complex, cheerfully strange and very violent universe waiting for them.”
Ella Purnell stars in the series, along with Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Walton Goggins, Moisés Arias, Sarita Choudhury, Michael Emerson, Leslie Uggams, Frances Turner, Dave Register, Zach Cherry, Johnny Pemberton, Rodrigo Luzzi, Annabel O’Hagan and Xelia Mendes-Jones.
As for plans for Fallout season 2 at Amazon, Howard, who is executive producing alongside series creator Nolan, can report that the plan is to currently continue following the characters from season 1, rather than switching to a different version of a ‘Fallout’ world for new episodes.
“The one thing Jonah told me about TV from day one is that it’s about finding the characters. And I really love how these characters have resonated with audiences,” said Howard. “And so I think there are still stories to be told. There are so many great characters – I love Norm and Chet, I love the two of them in every scene. And of course we have the Ghoul and Lucy and Maximus. But there are so many great characters who still have a lot of stories to tell.”
So what does all this ‘Fallout’ success mean for new games in the universe?
“I feel like it’s been 15 years from when I first started talking about it, but it was five years ago when Jonah and I first talked,” Howard said. “And games last more than five years. So we are planning for future games in this series and there is nothing to talk about at the moment, but we are always planning.”