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Forums - Sales Discussion - Americas pre-order chart: 16th April 2011

dsage01 said:

WTF with the PS3 numbers. VGC are you crazy??! How are you getting these PS3 numbers! BTW gears 3 looks overtracked to me the same way they overtracked Gears 2.



The pre-order charts for this site didn't exist when Gears 2 released..



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Blood_Tears said:
dsage01 said:

WTF with the PS3 numbers. VGC are you crazy??! How are you getting these PS3 numbers! BTW gears 3 looks overtracked to me the same way they overtracked Gears 2.



The pre-order charts for this site didn't exist when Gears 2 released..

Lol busted



themanwithnoname said:

I don't think I will be the last to point out how those Mortal Kombat numbers make absolutely no sense.


No sir you are not. The ps3 numbers make absolutely no sense at all. 



yo_john117 said:
Blood_Tears said:
dsage01 said:

WTF with the PS3 numbers. VGC are you crazy??! How are you getting these PS3 numbers! BTW gears 3 looks overtracked to me the same way they overtracked Gears 2.



The pre-order charts for this site didn't exist when Gears 2 released..

Lol busted

Not that but I found something from VGCHARTZ a long time ago

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/2496/gears-of-war-2-sells-21-million-on-day-one/



The pre order chartz just don't make any sense right, MK only 3k boost? inFAMOUS only 1k boost? 



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Calm down, I imagin he fogot to put a digit before the 3.

MK pre-orders likely surpass 500k, so 700k roughly week 1 in Americas I hope!



 

My theory is when VGC overtracks preorders, they don't fix the previous weeks numbers but they adjust the current weeks numbers down the amount they think they overtracked the game by. Mortal Kombat was ridiculously higher on the ps3 than the 360 for americas region which is why they only put down 4k for this week. They think they overtracked the ps3 version not undertracked the 360 version.

The same thing happened with bulletstorm for the 360. Initially it was heavily overtracked so its last two weeks they made it only gained 2k a week.

As for portal 2 sales that makes sense as well. Anyone who thinks the ps3 version will outsell the 360 version in americas is crazy. Its preorders started catching up simply because of the exclusive content. Similar to madden nfl 2011. Exclusive content/promotion helped preorders stay very close, but in the end the 360 version outsold the ps3 version by 400k in america.



Gears 3 is so high because of beta I guess, and hopefully the Uncharted 3 beta should help inFamous 2

My only real concern is LA Noire, it doesn't really seem to be picking up yet with a month until launch



weird numbers



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dsage01 said:
yo_john117 said:
Blood_Tears said:
dsage01 said:

WTF with the PS3 numbers. VGC are you crazy??! How are you getting these PS3 numbers! BTW gears 3 looks overtracked to me the same way they overtracked Gears 2.



The pre-order charts for this site didn't exist when Gears 2 released..

Lol busted

Not that but I found something from VGCHARTZ a long time ago

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/2496/gears-of-war-2-sells-21-million-on-day-one/

Thats different then these pre-orders so you can't compare them.

Although I do think Vgchartz pre-orders have a pretty big margin of error.