JustThatGamer said:
Firstly, according to Vgchartz Uncharted is at 13.03 million and Gears of War is at 17.77 (I doubled the triple pack because it's 2 games). And remember Gears of War 1 & 2 are available digitally meaning it's well over 18 million and probably closer to 19 million. When or if Gears of War 3 gets a holiday bundle this year like Fable III got last year and during which sold about 1.5m, Gears of War 3 will get an equally good or maybe even better boost and will sell around 2.5 million in 2012 putting the franchise well over 20 million. Uncharted 3 has no chance at selling that well this year because it probably won't get bundled this holiday due to other PS3 exclusives that will probably get the bundle treatment this holiday like God of War IV if the release date rumours are true or The Last of Us if that releases later this year.
Secondly, not in 2012, never will. Unless the Gears of War franchise stops now which it obviously won't. Uncharted 2 only got to where it is due to bundling otherwise it would've sold just a little more than the original Uncharted, and Uncharted 3 has been bundled like crazy and released near black Friday selling a lot at a discounted price. Gears of War doesn't have to rely on discounts and bundles to put out huge numbers, a new Gears of War will be even bigger than 3 without all the help Uncharted 3 needed.
Even if Uncharted somehow outsold the Gears of War franchise they'll still have made nowhere near as much money since Gears of War sold faster, at a more expensive price and wasn't bundled for free just a few weeks after launch. Not to mention Gears of War has much more fan merchandise for sale and a much larger amount of fans willing to buy them going by what franchise has more fans on Facebook, the largest Gears of War page has 1,700,000+ fans (#random fact, it's almost exactly the same as God of War) whereas the largest Uncharted page just has around 380,000 fans. A lot of people may enjoy Uncharted games but strangely it has very few devoted fans.
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Firstly, I dont understand why you double the numbers for the tripple pack. There will probably no GoW4 this year, UC3 can be very well bundled this holiday season. You say UC2 got to where it is thanks to bundling but then claim UC3 won't probably get bundled. Last year there were dozens of other bundles like the GT5.
Secondly, the first Uncharted sold really well, why is it so hard to believe the franchise grew with the 2nd installment? Why should bundling make such a big difference for UC2s growth? Uncharted 1 was also bundled with the PS3, so what? UC2 won nearly all GOTY awards and everybody talked about it a year ago.
Btw, Gears 1 and 2 were also bundled with the 360 here in Europe. I remember the 360 bundles with Gears 2+Forza 2 years ago.
How much faster is Gears 3 selling then? Microsoft said it shipped 3 million units first week whereas Sony said it shipped 3.8 million in the first day. Its hard to believe they still didnt sold out the first shipment for UC3.
