Curious about the kind of profound effect a popular television show can have on the sales of video game franchise? Just look at these latest numbers for the Fallout series in the aftermath of Amazon’s enormous adaptation. In the United States, sales of all titles in the post-apocalyptic property jumped significantly month-on-month, with Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 becoming the fourth and eighth best-selling titles of the month respectively.
But it wasn’t just the new titles that got a boost: cult favourite Fallout: New Vegas jumped up to 24th position, Fallout 3 climbed to 37th position, and even the classic Fallout games managed to jump up into around 122nd place. That’s a lot of Fallout flogged!
It’s really impressive to see the kind of impact a quality television show can have, and obviously we’ve observed similar things with The Last of Us and The Witcher in recent years too. What other video game franchises do you think have the potential to hit the big time as television shows or movies? Let us know in the comments section below.
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just goes to show what a high quality tv show will make for your IP in terms of video games. I hope that producers now understand why the Fallout and The Last of Us shows turned into video games sales, and why the Halo show did absolutely jack sh*t for the game
@Petrecis24 Cyberpunk's turn around in fortunes also coincided with the Edgerunners show, and it saw massive sales off the back of it as well as helping to turn the narrative around on that game.
That tv show was so good, until the last episode when all the mysteries were revealed and everything went incredibly dumb.
The show was one of the best adaptation ever, and Bethesda is gaining on that. Hope the wave will bring more good adaptations not rushed products to capitalize.
I don’t watch tv anymore of any kind but if I did I’d probably watch this lol
@Victor_Meldrew Why 10 more years? With it arguably being more popular than it's ever been, wouldn't you think ZeniMax or Microsoft would be pushing for a release don't sooner than that lol
@yohn777 Bethesda has a proven track record of taking forever to release a game. They announced the new Elder Scrolls six years ago in 2018. That still has to be released and is still years away. Fallout would be after that. Development time alone takes years and years even after shutting down and consolidating studios to start it recently. Fast tracking a new Fallout still means many years away.
now remasters or remakes of fallout 3 and new vegas for PlayStation 5 please and Microsoft you can have my money
Ok... guess it's nice for those getting into it now. But, nothing new in the horizon.
I would've taken remasters for 3 and new vegas.
The only way to have a new Fallout in the next years is if Microsoft hands it to obsidian again.
I'll say it again...imagine if Bethesda had been ready with a new, single-player Fallout 5 to coincide with the TV show. I mean, Fallout 4 is damn near a 10 year old game and is burning up the charts (doing better than the more recent 76, hmm...) but no, they were busy with...Starfield.
much preferred the fallout show to the last of us
It’s a shame the next fallout game will be coming on 2034
The show was so good though, even my very non gamer Mum enjoyed it
I enjoyed the show but i couldn't bring myself to buy Fallout 4 or 76 because it runs like crap on PS4. I also played Fallout 3 a bit on PC like eons ago and man the game was buggy as hell just like Skyrim.
Watch the show? Sure
Buy the game? No thanks
Too soon, Megaton affected all of us.
@GrimWillows Do they? It felt like there were specific reasons a new ES & a new Fallout have been taking so long. Skyrim is one of the best selling games of all time, there was never a rush to make another since they have proven to constantly make money on the one they made a long time ago. No reason to make Minecraft 2 when it's already selling gangbusters (it's not selling THAT good but you get my point).
For Fallout it's pretty obvious it was constructed to be milked like live service titles, which unfortunately most people bought into. I thought Fallout 76 was still more hated but I think the majority of that opinion has changed since the updates. After their work on Starfield, I'd be incredibly surprised to see the next Bethesda game not be a new ES or Fallout. I think it's been long enough, but maybe I'm wrong.
@PegasusActual93 I don't own a PS5 or Xbox.
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