Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout show seems hotter than a nuclear bomb. In fact, the TV series has now led to such a strong interest in the video game franchise that a popular modding website has had to issue a statement about “heavily degraded” performance.
Spotted by Eurogamer, Nexus Mods revealed that downloads have more than doubled since the Fallout series debuted earlier this month. “Fallout 4 and Fallout: New Vegas have seen big spikes on the site, contributing to peaks of 24 million total file downloads per day, compared to a norm of 10 million daily downloads,” community team lead Demorphic said.
On Sunday, April 21, those two games alone were responsible for over 12 million downloads. Nexus Mods believes there is another “big weekend ahead and will do whatever we can to keep the site running as smoothly as possible.” If you’re curious, GameSpot has rounded up 50 of the best Fallout 4 mods.
Fallout 76 is also more popular than ever on Steam, benefitting from the TV show similar to Fallout 4 and Fallout: New Vegas. Sunday saw a new peak concurrent player count of over 73,000 people for the online RPG. Overall, the Fallout franchise has experienced a massive player boost throughout April.
For more, check out GameSpot’s Fallout TV show review. Fallout Season 2 has been officially announced by Amazon, though no release window has been revealed yet.
