Amazon’s Fallout TV show has rightly earned about nine million plaudits since it came out, and the latest comes from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. During a call outlining the company’s latest batch of financial numbers, we’ve learned the extent to which the show boosted the player counts of Fallout titles on Game Pass.
Touching on the show, which recently recieved a bunch of Emmy nominations and was renewed for a second season faster than you can bring up VATS, Nadella revealed (thanks, IGN) that “hours played on Game Pass for the Fallout franchise increased nearly 5x quarter-over-quarter” following the show’s arrival.
While we already knew that Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell running around California had done wonders for the amounts of folks delving back into Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Fallout New Vegas, and their predecessors, Microsoft hadn’t previously outlined the effect it’d had on Game Pass specifically.