The latest Nielsen scores have arrived, exhibiting a big drop-off for Fallout Season 2 in comparison with Fallout Season 1. Nonetheless, there may be an apparent clarification for the dip.
In response to The Hollywood Reporter, Fallout viewership reached 794 million minutes on Prime Video for the week of December 15-21, which covers when Season 2 debuted on December 16. Season 1 racked up 2.9 billion minutes of streaming time throughout its personal opening week in April 2024. That is a 72% lower, however the huge downturn was little question attributable to how the 2 seasons had been launched.
Season 1, many could recall, was launched in a binge format with all episodes arriving on the similar time. Season 2, in the meantime, is adopting a weekly launch schedule. What’s extra, only one episode of Fallout Season 2 was launched on December 16, in comparison with two or three that Prime Video does for a few of its different exhibits.
Given all this, it solely is sensible that Fallout Season 1 would have considerably greater viewership statistics in comparison with Season 2.
In response to the Nielsen data–which combines a number of seasons in its rating reports– 54% of Fallout streaming minutes on Prime Video for the December 15-21 week had been from Season 2, making up about 429 million minutes. The remaining got here from viewership of Season 1.
Fallout Season 2 only recently aired its fifth episode, with three extra to come back every Wednesday till Season 2 wraps on February 4. A 3rd season will comply with someday later and will begin filming prior to anticipated.
For extra, try GameSpot’s breakdown of Fallout Season 2, Episode 5.
Past the TV sequence, Bethesda is rumored to be at work on remakes of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, together with the brand-new sport Fallout 5.
