Which will give a bigger HW boost: Xillia or Gears?

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Marks said:

postofficebuddy said:

Marks said:
Gears...by a country mile

Neither one will win 'by a country mile'. Gears is a much smaller franchise than Halo and the boost will likely be noticably smaller than Reach, and possibly smaller than 3. Xillia will probably top out at around the same boost as MHTri. So regardless of which one wins it won't be by a significant margin. Personally I think the Xillia boost will edge out the Gears boost by a small 3k-8k margin.

Gears is Microsoft's 2nd biggest franchise. Xillia is...wait...what is Xillia? Has anyone outside of Japan (or this site) heard of it?

I'm not saying Japan isn't important, I'm just saying Japan hates the Xbox so it won't really matter.

 

Just my opinion, I could be wrong and I'm prepared to eat crow if I am.

Had anyone really heard of Monster Hunter Tri outside of Japan back in '09? Both series are small potatoes outside Japan, doesn't mean they don't move HW inside of it. This prediction has more to do with how hardcore the collectors in Japan are than how big the series is in the overall scheme of things. I'm not even trying to infer that 'Tales of' is a bigger series than Gears. Obviously it's not.