Fallout 3 nukes UK competition, outsells previous franchise installments

by Alexander Sliwinski on Nov 4th 2008 11:45AM

Although it's still a couple weeks before the US NPD data comes in, Fallout 3 is doing quite well for itself over in the UK. The title has climbed to the top of the PS3, Xbox 360, PC and overall charts in the region. We find it hard to believe, but GI.biz reports the game has already surpassed the combined regional sales of Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

The division in Fallout 3 sales across platforms is 55% on Xbox 360, 28% on PS3 and 17% on PC (of course, the division does not count pirated copies). First week sales were also 57% higher than Oblivion's initial performance, which makes sense, considering the smaller install base of the Xbox 360 at that time (not to mention the late arrival of a PS3 version).

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Tags: bethesda, Bethesda-Game-Studios, bethesda-softworks, fallout-3, PC, PS3, RPG, sales, uk, Xbox-360

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Of course its going to see more and have more attention than the previous games, being this was developed by Bethesda and the success of TES: Oblivion.

I'll bet a large majority of Fallout 3 players have never played the first two games and some may have tried them due to the "halo effect", but now find them too dated to play. Not that its a bad thing, this game has nothing to do with the previous two games story-wise.

But even though this game is quite different from the first two, it has one important thing in common, its sucking away hours of my life! ARGGGHGHGHGHGH!!!! :(

Killing radscorpions and other melee-only mobs are certainly easier this time around. Unfortunately, that ease of getting around has led to more time lost playing this thing.

I'd have to agree.Although I hate to come off as a graphic whore, the interface and graphics are definitely not the kind of thing I'd spend 80+ hours looking at.

The series definitely needs a remake.

And well deserved I should say. This is easily my goty so far, and I may as well crown it cause I don't see anything that I haven't played yet topping it.

Same here. As good as I think Gears2 will be, I just don't see myself playing it as much as I would like. Fallout 3 is just too good. I've been playing a good amount but I really haven't even scratched the surface.

Strong contender, but I'm holding out for Left 4 Dead.

This is my game of the last ten years. That’s how long I waited to leave the vault and travel the wastes again. Great job to Bethesda for bringing my favorite franchise back from the dead.

My bro's telling me there's already some mods for the PC version, I rented the 360 version and that convinced him to buy the PC version.

If someone can remake 1/2 with 3's engine, I'll go crazy.

Don't think that's possible, no matter how flexible the engine is.

I do know the PC version will get some very nice mods just like Oblivion did.

It can't be too hard to remake 1 or 2 in full 3D with the Fallout 3 engine.

Well ok, it'd take ages, but most of the textures, assets and sound files already exist.

"of course, the division does not count pirated copies"

Oh good, cause you know since this post was about Fallout 3 sales I thought the figures were including all the pirated copies.

lol if they did that for Spore than EA's stock would not have dropped.

I read the article wrong at first, and was SO ready to scroll down and say "FALLOUT TACTICS WAS NOT THE SEQUEL TO FALLOUT!!" then I realised that "it's sequel" was just an item in the list.

But doesn't it look like "and it's sequel, Fallout Tactics" at first?

Fallout Tactics and fallout 3 are both made by different companies than the originals, both change the gameplay drastically, and both have plots that have very little to do with the originals. So why would you get mad when Fallout tactics is as much of a "sequel" to the originals as Fallout 3?

...because Fallout tactics isn't the sequel to Fallout... Fallout 2 is....

Plus, Tactics would be considered a spinoff, not a sequel. Mario 3 changed the gameplay from Mario 1, but it is a true sequel and Mario RPG is not, it's a spinoff. Just an example. Ya catch me? :)

"The division in Fallout 3 sales across platforms is 55% on Xbox 360, 28% on PS3 and 17% on PC (of course, the division does not count pirated copies)."

Pirated copies are not sales, and will never be included. Steam copies are usually not included in sales.

Im losing too much sleep because of this damn game.

Me too! I'll keep saying I'll put it down in 30 minutes. Next thing I know, 5 hours have past.

Of course it outsold the previous Fallouts. They probably spent more on advertising for Fallout 3 than was spent on creating all of the previous Fallouts.

True. Plus, Fallout's market was hardcore PC gaming roleplayers in the mid-90's.

While I'm sure at the time that was a fair proportion of gamers, it certainly wasn't going to go quadruple-platinum.

This game is full of greatness. Can't get enough of it. It is the best game I have played this year. Well worth the money.

Oh and I can't believe IGN rated Gears 2 & Resistance 2 higher than Fallout 3. Fucking dumb.....

That's the mystique of ratings. Your assessment is probably correct, but you can't state why you think it should be rated higher other than the fact that you think it's a better game. Otherwise it just gets bogged down into a whole "apples aren't oranges or carrots" thing that always happens when people talk about GoTY

It could just be that those two scores got inflated, as tends to happen with first-party major console titles, or because of the many nagging flaws of Fallout 3 that are there, but don't hinder the experience

The loading screen is a bit ugly, -3% off that score!

I'm having a really hard time getting into this game. I played for about 3 hours and had to turn it off due to sheer boredom and annoyance.

Right now I'm just seeing all the parts that I utterly despised about Oblivion. Seriously considering just trading it in.

Does anyone have any tips or an area that will really suck me in? I really want to like this game, but it's making it difficult for me by being Oblivion with guns (or at least that's how it feels right now)

Like Fallout 2 for me, it starts off slow in the beginning and frustrating but definitely gets better later on. I've just discovered Vault 112 right now.

The difficulty curve is way off, the game starts by throwing you up against a brick wall, soon it will take two shots to kill anything, then one shot and heads roll, and finally it will take two shots to kill most everything as the enemies scale with you as you level up.

I didn't like the game for the first few hours then I loved the game, then I beat it and hit the wall at around 25 hours with 6 side missions left and don't see myself playing Fallout again any time soon.

@Stink Snake

They don't *exactly* scale. Not like they did in Oblivion, at least.

Clarification on how scaling works in FO3:
http://planetfallout.gamespy.com/wiki/Does_Fallout_3_Have_Level_Scaling_Like_Oblivion%3F

Personally it hasn't bothered me yet. GOTY contender.

LOVING this game, it is the dope. Totally ruining all my real-world relationships.

Like it SO much I actually made a web app to help with hacking! Check it out at http://hack-boy.com.

Your hack-boy looks cool. Great job.

Also Fallout has been advertised a lot over here (with an xbox plug at the end). I don't remember any Oblivion ads on the TV.

Good job 360!

Of course that's all you care about, totally ignoring how amazing the actual game is.

You couldn't be a bigger tool.

Are you hoping that one day Microsoft will notice your posts and start paying you?

I'm not sure if you meant it that way, but I read it as "sales of Fallout and it's sequel, Fallout Tactics" as in Tactics is the sequel. In reality, it is not.

GOTY, btw.

Bethesda wanted to set the world on fire.

I would assume the percentage is much higher on PC, with STEAM especially not being counted. Makes sense with Retail though.

They probably didn't count the sale of Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics from GOG.com. So I don't trust their assesment to be complete, but it could probably be fair to say that it did outsell them.

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