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Xbox’s Phil Spencer tries to spin not having a new Fallout game ready alongside the Amazon show as a good thing (www.polygon.com)

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[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Plus they made a fuckton on new fo4 purchases when show released for zero additional cost. Steam had a killer sale for all the fallout games when the show released. Seems like no brainer especially because you never know if a show will be a hit. Look at Witcher, it never really caught on to the larger market outside of its already existing fans.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a feeling the Fallout show is quite similar in terms of not being popular outside of people who already like that particular universe.

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk. I'm the only nerd out of my family and friends and a bunch of them watched and loved the fallout show. Including my parents who are 60 years old and haven't played an "idiot games," what my mom calls video games, since Robotron lol.

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

my FIL was super excited for the fallout show and spent a bunch of our last visit explaining the premise of fallout to me. been playing since like 2008 or something lol

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

fo4 is basically free. i got into it a few years ago, quite late, and paid like 10 bucks for the whole thing with all the DLCs on xbox and like 4$ on steam