Is there something wrong with the Tekken 6 numbers?

[theprof00]

Mendicate Bias said:

theprof00 said:
I honestly think that people did not pick up the game yet. It is foolish to think that everyone who pre-orders will pick it up on release day. People have personal and business lives to deal with, and Gamestop is not open 24/7. Additionally, for a pre-order, you have to go the the exact store you pre-ordered from or your credit is not applied.

Those pre-orders will factor in to the second and third week sales. Don't forget that some pre-order bonuses are given at the time of pre-order, meaning that you can get exclusive content without ever having bought the game.
Shit, I pre-ordered Uncharted 2 and got the free booster. Then, I bought UC2 at a different gamestop. I then finally went back to the gamestop that I actually preordered from and changed my pre-order credit to MW2.

That doesn't make any sense. Your not taking into account the majority of people that buy their games without a pre-order. So are you saying that a massive number of people who had laid down money for a game they anticipated changed their pre-order one week before the release of the game and then no additional people walked into the store and bought a copy? Considering every game I have ever seen has sold more opening week than what it had for pre-orders I would say your logic is wrong and that ioi simply over tracked the game by a lot which is very likely as he himself has admitted that they have trouble accurately predicting pre-orders for games.

On a side note I honestly think the same thing is going on for MAG. I just can not see its pre-orders being so high especially after comparing it to other games on the list which are established franchises that have sold millions but have less pre-orders than a game with almost zero advertisement and hype.

Well, considering that first week sales only take 1-2 days worth of sales, you're saying that a majority of the games purchased are done by people who have not pre-ordered but come in and buy a game on day 1?

This is plausible, but it's not set in stone.

Also, do you think MW2 sales on day 1 will be more than 4.5M?