Fallout Shelter earned $5.1M in its first 2 weeks

You still have to wait a few months to play the next major Fallout release for PC and consoles, but publisher Bethesda is already making enough money to fill a postapocalyptic vault from its first crack at mobile.

Fallout Shelter made $5.1 million in its first two weeks on the market, according to industry intelligence firm SuperData Research. That is despite the game only debuting for iOS so far. It should bring in quite a bit more once it rolls out on Android later this year. Bethesda, which held its first ever media event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade last month, seized on the opportunity to capitalize on the hype of Fallout 4 by releasing a free-to-play mobile adaptation of the series that places very little pressure on players to spend money, and that has helped it break off a piece of the $30 billion mobile-gaming business for itself.