Gears of war 3 to break records?

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bannedagain said:

hudsoniscool said:

Yes gears 3 has 650k pre-orders right now but it had a beta which was almost unanumsly accessed by pre-ordering the game. Probably would only be at 60-150k if it wasnt for that. If reach'es beta was accesed by pre-ordering the game instead of having odst it would have been over 1 million at this point. So no gears wont outsell reach or BO fw or LT.

5 weeks back, it was over 320,000 pre-ordered and that was before the beta started for none Bulletstorm users. Bulletstorm would also have to play a role in people not pre-ordering or if they liked it, pre-ordering gears 3.  The 5th of march, which is 10 weeks back the game was already at 171,000 pre-ordered. So your 60-150k is off by 10 weeks atleast.

okay your right. the game was at 171k when it was anounced  that you could get into the beta by preordering. Taking into account the games delay which probably resulted in 50k extra pre-orders. Then the game would probably only be at 200k right now if it was always scheduled for a fall 11 release and never had the pre-order to get into beta thing.

  Reach was kept under wraps until like 6 months from its release(excluding a teaser and a cinamatic trailer). Gears 3 has been shown since last years e3. People have been pre-ordering the game since then. Now though the whole game has basically been shown off and since the beta is now over pre-order numbers will start to drop considerably. ITs numbers will probably drop to less than 30k a week in a few weeks and since epic probably has no unseen content to show its numbers will stay low al the way untill 3 or 4 weeks before launch. I expect it will only get  1 million-1.2 million pre-orders(which i think is amazing since gears 2 did 1.3 million FW here) and will sell ~2.7 million fw WW.