Americas Preorder chart Week Ending 23rd Apr 2011

[Michael-5]

yo_john117 said:

Wow @ Gears 3!

Seeing ME3 on that list makes me so very happy!

 

Anyways here's the Gears 3 vs Halo Reach comparison.

Week	Halo Reach	Gears of War 3	Net difference
26	3,959/50,777	30,053/238,422	26,094 (759.1%)/187,645 (469.5%)
25	8,179/58,956	27,618/266,040	19,439 (337.7%)/207,084 (451.3%)
24	18,947/77,903	55,197/321,237	36,250 (291.3%)/243,334 (412.4%)
23	13,015/90,918	59,594/380,831	46,579 (457.9%)/289,913 (418.9%)
22	12,041/102,959	68,121/448,952	56,080 (523.4%)/345,993 (436.0%)
21	17,885/120,844
20	31,619/152,463
19	19,315/171,778
18	33,137/204,915
17	35,189/240,104
16	30,222/270,326
15	28,359/298,685
14	25,899/324,584
13	25,038/349,622
12	34,437/384,059
11	55,319/439,378
10	38,051/477,429
9	50,884/528,313
8	118,699/647,012
7	126,340/773,352
6	139,346/912,698
5	158,668/1,071,366
4	183,640/1,255,006
3	203,984/1,458,990
2	232,354/1,691,344
1	300,735/1,992,079

I want to expand upon this.

I know Gears 3 weekly pre-orders will probably drop a bit next week, and then get significantly cut three weeks after that when the beta is over, but it could hold similar weekly pre-orders to Halo: Reach. Weather it does or not, this will be Gears of War's biggest opening week, and it will likely open to 3 million sales or greater. Gears 2 opened to 1.9 million, and looks like it will sell close to 7 million lifetime. Does this mean Gears 3 will be 360's next exclusive 10 million seller? I hope so, it deserves it.

BTW Gears 3 at 28 weeks had 4.5x as many pre-orders as Uncharted 3 at 28 weeks, and weekly increases were over 6x as great. I wonder how well UC3 will open compared to Gears 3.