Amazon Prime's most streamed series in the world: Fallout boosts sales of the video games that inspired it

“Fallout”, which depicts a retro-futuristic world 200 years after a global nuclear war, is a critical success and has a rating of 93% on the review aggregator “Rotten Tomatoes”. INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP

The success of the American series "Fallout", released Thursday on Prime Video and adapted from a very popular video game franchise, is giving a boost to sales of games in the saga several years after their releases .

In a message published on Sunday on X, the SteamDB database indicates that with the arrival of the series,"+Fallout+ has more than doubled its number of concurrent players" on the online gaming platform Steam. On Monday, more than 130,000 players launched "Fallout 76" (2018), "Fallout 4" (2015) and "Fallout: New Vegas" (2010) on Steam, compared to less than 35,000 five days earlier.

According to figures provided by the company Layer Licensing to the British site GamesIndustry, the mobile game "Fallout Shelter" also multiplied its daily revenues by 4, generating nearly $80,000 on Saturday, and by 3 the number of its downloads.

The most streamed in the world

'Fallout', which depicts a retro-futuristic world 200 years after a global nuclear war, enjoyed critical success and posted a 93% rating on review aggregator 'Fallout'. Rotten Tomatoes. The official account of the series, produced by the creators of “Westworld”, including Christopher Nolan's brother, Jonathan, indicated on Saturday on X that it was also the most streamed in the world on Amazon's video-on-demand site.

Video game designer Todd Howard, director of "Fallout 3" and "Fallout 4" within Bethesda Games Studios, and its team participated in this adaptation. Video game publishers have well understood the economic impact that successful adaptations of their flagship licenses can have.

On April 25, Bethesda will also offer an update for "Fallout 4" in order to optimize the game on new generation consoles. Before "Fallout", two other serial game adaptations had pushed fans to turn to their consoles and PC: "The last of us" (2023) on HBO and "The Witcher" (2019) on Netflix.

The latter had boosted sales of physical editions of the game "The Witcher 3" by 554% in the United States the month the series was released. Likewise, the success of "The last of us" had revived sales of the "remake" of the original game, released a few months before the series aired.