The Fallout revival continues as nearly 5 million players have journeyed into the wasteland in a single day
Thanks to the success of the Fallout TV show, the wasteland is experiencing a boon of new and returning players.
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If there’s one thing we love in Appalachia, it’s a good old-fashioned revival. Today, Bethesda is witnessing aFalloutrevival that many studios could only dream of, following a TV or movie adaptation of a video game. The official Twitter account for Fallout shared a post declaring that more than one million adventurers had stepped into the Appalachian wasteland of Fallout 76 today. Those players joined even more across the series, for a grand total of nearly five million active players in a Fallout title in a single day.
Thank you to the over one million of you who adventured with us in #Fallout76 in a single day… pic.twitter.com/rbariEI4q8April 23, 2024
According to player tracking service, SteamDB.info,Fallout 76 has experienced a 476% gain in active playersover the last 30 days. The open-world multiplayer RPG set in the Appalachian mountains has set new records for peak player counts, tipping the scales with a new all-time peak player count earlier this week when 73,368 Vault Dwellers stepped into the wasteland.
2015’s Fallout 4 has also seen a significant increase in player numbers, breaking into thetop 10 most-played games on SteamDBwith a 538% gain in player numbers in the last 30 days.Fallout 4 will receive a next-gen update this week, addingbug fixes and current-gen features such as support forultrawide monitorsandSteam Deckverification.
The influx of new and returning players to the Fallout series is due in no small part to the success of the Fallout TV show adaptation that aired on Prime Video on April 11. Marketing around the series included a slew of free offerings and expanded availability. Entries from the Fallout series were added to cloud streaming services from NVIDIA and Amazon, in addition to being readily available on Xbox Game Pass on PC, console, and the cloud.
SteamDB.info’s statistics for player counts help provide a snapshot into player numbers on Steam, but it cannot add player counts from cloud and console platforms outside of Steam. Acknowledgments of player counts fromBethesdaare rare, and the company typically keeps the number of subscribers and players onXbox-owned properties close to the chest.
Amazon has already renewed Prime Video’s Fallout TV adaptation for a second season, which may pose apotential problem for Xbox and Bethesda. There doesn’t appear to be any new content or games in the series coming anytime soon that can capitalize on the promotional boon generated by a successful adaptation.
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