Captain Obvious time: The Fallout TV series has massively increased game sales, even for the '90s originals

Captain Obvious time: The Fallout TV series has massively increased game sales, even for the ’90s originals | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Fallout Fallout: New Vegas remaster hopium goes off like Mount Vesuvius as Iron Galaxy teases ‘what’s coming next’ with a very famous loading screen Movies & TV Sorry, but that countdown on Amazon’s Fallout site didn’t lead to a Fallout 3 or New Vegas remaster announcement… or any announcement at all Fallout A Steam glitch convinced some Fallout fans a New Vegas remaster was imminent, only to have the rug yanked out from under them: ‘Slowly turning into r/HalfLife’ Movies & TV Some Fallout fans are convinced the Season 2 finale showed the Courier, but there’s one little detail that I think disproves it Movies & TV Bethesda keeps the Fallout remaster hopium flowing by showing Aaron Moten inside Fallout 3 and New Vegas Movies & TV Amazon’s Fallout website is counting down to something, and fans are hoping the long-awaited Fallout 3 remaster (or maybe even New Vegas) is finally on the way Movies & TV Fallout Season 2 Episode 8 recap: ‘Everyone works for me eventually’ Fallout Fallout was a ‘B-tier product’ that lost both the licenses it was banking on and had its lead dev joking, ‘In a week, we’re going to be asking whether people want fries with their meal,’ but now he thinks those trials ‘turned out to be positives’ Fallout Is it just me or did Season 2 of the Fallout TV series effectively wipe Courier 6 from existence? 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Fallout season two recently ended and, as one of Amazon’s biggest hits, you can bet it won’t be too long before we’re all enjoying season three. We already noticed player numbers double as a knock-on effect from season two’s premiere, but the show has had an even bigger impact on the games than we first realized.The data comes from key reseller G2A.com (first reported by MCV UK) and focuses on Fallout’s PC sales across the two years of the show running. Get ready for some jargon:Permanent Growth: While Season 1 (April 2024) triggered a massive acquisition spike, sales throughout 2025 stabilised at a baseline significantly higher than the pre-series era.The Anticipation Surge: Sales volume in the month immediately preceding the Season 2 premiere was 78% higher than the average monthly volume of the previous quarter. This demonstrates that the ‘Halo Effect’ now begins weeks before a show actually airs.Sustainable Growth: Even during the gaps between seasons, the ongoing interest remained multiple times higher than the early 2024 baseline, proving that the show successfully onboarded a permanent new audience. (Image credit: G2A.com)There are obviously some caveats here, primarily that G2A is only one digital outlet, and far from the biggest (it’s also been the target of harsh criticism from game publishers in the past). But here it does seem to be reflecting a wider trend: looking at the SteamDB entries for both Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 shows an enormous spike in players over April and May 2024 (the show premiered on April 10, 2024). In both cases the player counts shot up by roughly ten times, with Fallout 4 at one point av