Following TV show success, the Fallout games are exploding in popularity

The Fallout series is experiencing a resurgence in its player base thanks to the popularity of the new TV series, combined with the fact that all of the Fallout games are currently on sale at discounted prices. Most of the Fallout games on Steam had their peak concurrent players quadruple in the last few days.

According to SteamDB, which provides analytics on player counts and pricing history, Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout 4 has seen an increase in concurrent players, with a peak of over 83,000 playing the game. While this number is still far from the game's all-time high of 472,000 concurrent players achieved on Steam nine years ago, it is still a significant rise from the previous average of 18,000 to 20,000 players over the past several years.

Fallout 76, the franchise's only multiplayer game, peaked at nearly 40,000 players on Steam, up from over 10,000 last week. Fallout 3 GOTY Edition and Fallout 3, released in 2008, have also seen an increase in their player base, from a peak of 1000 to over 7,000 gamers across both titles. Fallout: New Vegas followed the same trend, peaking at close to 20,000 players. The original Fallout and Fallout 2 have also seen similar increases in concurrent player counts, with the former peaking at over 2,000 players and the latter at just over 1,000. Lastly, we have Fallout Shelter, which had close to 6,000 players at its peak.

This week to celebrate the launch of the TV show, which has received great reviews so far, the Fallout games and all associated DLCs have also been on sale across all platforms. There is a good chance that the Fallout games saw a boost on PlayStation and Xbox too – Xbox in particular, as the current-gen consoles can run all of the Bethesda-era Fallout games at 60FPS with resolution boost too.

Bethesda will be shipping its first update for Fallout 4 in years later this month. On consoles, the game will be updated for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S to run at higher resolutions and frame rates. On the PC side, we're getting official ultra-wide resolution support, alongside a host of bug fixes.

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