“Fallout” is a success on Amazon Prime and equally inspires the success of the underlying games. This makes the cash registers sound, as a current survey makes clear.
The “Fallout” series on Amazon Prime* has an effect that we have already seen in other productions of this type: While the TV show is based on a video game brand and gets more attention for that reason alone, the underlying games also benefit.
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At the beginning of the week we reported on the games “Fallout 76”, “Fallout 4” and “Fallout New Vegas” and their access numbers on Steam got a decent boost, after the Prime series started. Figures are now also available for another game in the series.
At Fallout Shelter, revenue is bubbling up again
“Fallout Shelter” was initially released for mobile systems in 2015, before a PC version and later console ports followed. PS4 players have been there since June 2018. After initial success and bubbling income, interest declined due to age. Generated regular income Bethesda – now owned by Microsoft – but ongoing.
Data from the mobile analysis company Sensor Tower (via Gamesindustry.biz) now show how “Fallout Shelter” was able to benefit from the new hype. Sales generated with the mobile versions rose from just over $20,000 on the day the series launched to $80,000 recorded on April 13, 2024.
The number of downloads per day also increased over the three days – from around 20,000 on the day the series started to over 60,000. After just 24 hours, a 20 percent increase could be seen. In the USA, “Fallout Shelter” has now reached seventh place in the top free games charts on iOS. It's the highest ranking since June 2018, when the PS4 and Switch announcements gave a boost.
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Please note that “Fallout Shelter” is also available on other platforms, so the amounts mentioned are not the total increases.
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Full impact only in the coming weeks
Rachit Moti, founder and CEO of Layer, explains that “Fallout Shelter” in particular was able to benefit from the start of the series with the inclusion of new outfits and characters that are connected to the Amazon production. The same applies to “Fallout 76”.
And we clearly haven't seen the end of the line: “It's important to remember that the series is still relatively new and we will only see the full impact of this adaptation in the coming weeks,” were the final words of Moti.
Further reports about the Fallout series on Amazon Prime:
Other publishers are also eager to bring their brands to the big screen or into the libraries of streaming providers. Sony is represented with productions such as “Uncharted”, “Gran Turismo” and “The Last of Us”. The last-mentioned series is getting a second season, to which we All the information known so far is summarized here have.
Which other productions based on video game brands are at least planned (or were now), is summarized in a specialwhich reflects the status of February 2024.
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