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Gears of War to break records?

Will beat reach 29 39.73%
 
Will beat COD 7 9.59%
 
None of the above. 36 49.32%
 
Total:72
enrageorange said:

the arguement that there are no other big exclusive games coming out these holidays is stupid. 90% of gamers don't care if the game is exclusive. Call of Duty, Battlefield 3, Elder Scrolls V, and Batman Arkham City will all be heavily preordered this holiday as well. No sane gamer is going to think crap I've only preordered multiplatforms, better preorder gears of war even though I don't want it because I haven't preordered an exclusive yet.

While its current preorder numbers are insane, not only will it not beat halo reach's first week, I'm willing to bet it won't come within 1mil units of halo reach's first week. 

Still it will be a bigger imrovement over gears 2 first weel, than halo reach was over halo 3 first week in my opinion =), but comparing the sales directly with halo reach or black ops is ridiculous.


i agree with you. People expect gears 3 to be huge just from its pre-orders. It will likely have  <3 million fw, and sell less than 7.5 million lifetime.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

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Looks like Gears is giving halo reach a run for there money.



http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders.php?date=40741



Will keep this thread going until lunch and update weekly.



Reach really picked up in the last few weeks before launch so who knows. But anything is possible i remeber people saying that it wont be bigger than Halo 3 and they were wrong.



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i think 3 to 4m is likely first wk.



It has a chance to beat Reach's FW. I think it has to do with Gears being more hardcore than Halo.

It's not beating Black OPs (X360) FW numbers, not a chance. It could reach MW2's (X360) FW numbers. I don't know, I'll have to check what MW2 did.



2.5 million first week



osamanobama said:
2.5 million first week


More like 2.8 million at least

Gears 2 did 1.9m with much less pre orders, horrible online, and lacked a beta



It will sell well but will not beat either of those two in sells.