Reasonable said:
I suspect the Beta gathered MAG most of its buyers, while some who placed pre-orders didn't like the Beta and cancelled. I'm not sure the pre-order totals get decremented as well as incremented. Either that or the number was way high, but it's actually closer to final sales than ME2 pre-orders, so I think it's more likely at a point it looked like MAG had accumulated 250 K pre-orders but no-one was decrementing the 50K who changed their mind and cancelled. |
Very likely although I think way more than 50k cancelled their preorder.
The American chart provides data for 5 whole days of MAG sales.
EDIT: kowenicki was faster......