Rather then keeping bumping the same quotes i will post a new one Snake.
GT5 while not given a specific date was given specific time frames. Pre-orders have been accepted for a longtime. I placed mine over a year ago. I am sure others are the same. Reach had it's official release date confirmed at the end of may, a month ago. But like with GT5 people could pre-order it long before then. Either way a month ago before it's date was confirmed it still had nearly 3x the pre-orders that GT5 has now after 2 weeks of having it's date confirmed. You can't spin that to defend GT5's numbers.
And of course Reach will sell more in US then anywhere else. US is the main region for the 360. It has 23m units there compared to 15m in others. But the attach rates are not too different. Halo 3 sold 8m in US. That means 34% of 360 owners bought Halo 3. In others it is 3m, meaning 20%. If those numbers replicate for Reach then obviously the game will sell over 10m again. Sure Reach had a beta, i never got to play it. But GT5 has had a long time in the media sun, you would have to be living under a rock on mars to not know about it. We only saw gameplay footage/pictures of Reach recently.
The whole point of comparing the pre-orders is to see where each game is at a certain point in time. You can compare how well each do in comparison with one another. You can tell which games will sell well based on these because if over a long period of time they have been gaining pre-order numbers then chances are it will sell well. If it is not gaining pre-orders in line with the big selling games then chances are it will not sell as well as those games. Right now GT5 is not getting as many pre-orders as other top selling games have had. As the weeks go by those numbers will increase. But it needs to start getting a lot more pre-orders.
With those numbers we can see what is happening in US. We obviously don't have any numbers for europe but to expect it to sell xyz there is assumption.
