To play devil's advocate (because I work in academic research and deal with research publication issues such as bias/fraud in pharmaceutical company sponsored data), it's not in the best interest for either GameSpot and Amazon to make a statement that Black Ops 2 isnt't matching the pre-order pace of MW3.  The sellers want hype and want consumers to buy products from them whether or not they make a profit on Black Ops 2.  Hype and consumer awareness are good for their overall business.

That's true, but, I don't think they'd issue a straight up lie about the pre-orders either, they'd use more ambiguous wording. Here they're using very categorical statements with no room for interpretation. 

They have no reason to lie either. If Black Ops 2 pre-orders were lower than MW3, they would just say that, or not issue any kind of statement at all.

The picture in the OP shows total pre-orders for MW2 across all players, but it only shows the average number of BLOPS 2 copies being sold to each individual player.

So if, on average, every player has 1 million copies of the game pre-ordered already... expect domination!

Didn't Gamestop say it's the most pre-ordered game ever?

Just passing by reading the comments. Oh and like others have stated the numbers are severely under tracked here on VGCHARTZ.

Do we have, or can we make a comparrison chart to compair it to Black Ops (original) and The Modern Warfare 2?

Might be interesting.

that's not true at all. It'll probably easily outsell MW3.

This week, VGChartz says it's even further behind.

Any info on updated pre-order assessment from either GameSpot or Amazon?  Those statements describing the BO2 on pace to be the largest pre-orders were few weeks ago.  Also, one of the statements (don't remember which) says that the BO2 had the largest pre-orders on the 1st day available for pre-orders.

VGChartz undertracking can't be that bad, could it?

VGC should not track Pre-Orders since they are terrible doing it.

Black Ops 2 will be the biggest launch ever.