It's no secret that the Fallout show was a big success, with Amazon saying it was the streaming arm's biggest hit since The Rings of Power, with . It's also no real secret that successful videogame shows make people want to play the games, but it is pretty cool to see how many go and do just that: This month's little Valve of what people are playing on the Steam Deck shows all four modern Fallout games taking a top 20 spot for most-played by playtime.
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The whole situation isn't without precedent or anything: Back when the Witcher TV series first debuted, Witcher 3 saw with sales . It's a real lesson that you can bet big publishers are taking to heart: If you can get a TV series made you'll drive older players back to your game and boost new sales.
It's also a real point at a way you can expect these types of marquee series to stay in the public light as game development cycles get longer and longer: Release a series in that big gap between game launches. I mean, even the Fallout show's producer said [[link]]
For his part, Bethesda game development big man Todd Howard has been pretty gung-ho about the show's faithfulness to the games.
Howard that the experience [[link]] of visiting the set for Amazon's Fallout was "surreal," noting that he "thought there'd be more movie magic, like, 'Eh, they're gonna fake a lot of stuff, a lot of it's gonna be CG,'" before coming face-to-face with the show's Vaults.
In other news, as the lore of the older Fallout games drifts ever-further into the dusty past, PC Gamer's Jeremy Laird took a look at .