Sales of Fallout games have skyrocketed across Europe, and Fallout 4 regained the top spot. The last solo game of the franchise in 2015 was bought by 7500% more than every week. Data GDC include digital game sales in all European markets and physical sales in major countries.
The growth is attributed to large discounts on games from the Fallout franchise across all platforms. The platforms and stores are doing them to tie the sale to the Fallout series, which has been a success on Amazon Prime.
The majority of Fallout 4 sales this week were on PC — 69% of all, with the rest coming from PlayStation and Xbox. It is worth noting that the game is available for free for Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus Extra subscribers (data not included in this statistic). the game is also available on Amazon Luna cloud service.
Fallout 76 ranks 8th in sales, with 85% of purchases on PC (again, the game is available on Game Pass and PS Plus). Fallout: New Vegas ranks 9th, and Fallout 3 — 10th. Further down the charts, Fallout Classic Collection has risen to #43, Fallout 2 is at #57, and the first Fallout is at #70. Given that the Fallout TV series retains its popularity this week, we should expect the European top to remain unchanged.
GSD data includes games from participating companies that are sold through Steam, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and Nintendo Eshop. The main participating companies are: Activision Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Embracer Group (including Gearbox, Koch Media, Sabre Interactive), Focus Entertainment, Konami, Marvelous Games, Microids, Microsoft (including Bethesda), Milestone, Nacon, Paradox Interactive, Quantic Dream, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Take-Two, Tencent, Ubisoft and Warner Bros.
Digital media data includes games sold in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
Data on physical media includes sales in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.