There TV series Of Fallout of Prime Video is selling the video game series of Bethesda? At this moment yes, as it should be remembered that the videogame series was the first to sell the TV series. The move to Amazon's video streaming service will certainly have attracted a new audience to video games, but in this case we are not talking about a small intellectual property that is driven by the success of a derivative product, but of a real giant, such well before arriving on the small screen. It is therefore surprising that in public discourse the hypothesis that it is the greatness of the video game series that has allowed the success of the TV series always remains nuanced, almost unmentioned, while its effects on video games are magnified.
Huge numbers
It's true that these days all the titles in the series are selling very well, but we forget that they were already great successes. To say: Fallout 4 was launched on November 10, 2015 and sold 1.2 million copies within 24 hours. On launch day it reached 470,000 concurrent players Steam. Bethesda had shipped 12 million physical copies of the console versions to stores. At the time there was talk of revenues of 750 million dollars in the period of access to the market. Subsequently Pete Hines, former communications manager at Bethesda, stated that in an equivalent period of time Fallout 4 had sold more copies than The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, one of the best-selling electronic role-playing games of all time (if not the best-selling) .
In the last few days, Fallout 4 has obtained a few thousand new reviews on Steam (less than 10,000), thanks to the recent boom in sales. A trifle compared to the more than 200,000 or so he had accumulated in recent years. We also want to add that we are talking about the second most modded game ever After Skyrim? Nexus Mods has more than 48,000 mods available for download. After all, the Fallout video game series has been a great inspiration for many other development studios, given that we don't count the derivative works (take the recent Broken Roads) or those born from the game itself (think of the upcoming Fallout: London).
Another example of this success is paradoxically Fallout 76, which certainly didn't make the same numbers, but if it hadn't been the result of a intellectual property so strong, it would hardly have survived, thriving, the disastrous launch that overwhelmed it.
With this I don't want to belittle the series Prime Videowhich is well made and very beautiful (watch it if you haven't already, because it's worth it), but I would like someone to say clearly that if it has had such a resonance it is not only because of its qualities, but also because of an excellent video game series since its first episode, which has nothing to envy from a narrative and expressive point of view.
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