WW up! 24th September

[Michael-5]

thismeintiel said:

Michael-5 said:

trunkswd said:

VXIII said:

WOW , the 360 looks scary this way

The same thing happened when Halo: Reach launched. I expect Gears 3 to sell another 600,000 in its second week.

I think Gears 3 could break 5 million by the end of October, and maybe 6 million if it's lucky by the end of the year. That would be great to top Gears of War 1 and 2 in only 4 months.

Highly unlikely.  Even Halo Reach, which opened at over 4 million units and is part of a more popular franchise, took another 7 weeks to add an extra 2 million in sales to its FW numbers.  I doubt Gears can pull the same feat off in only 5 weeks.  However, you may be right about Gears hitting 6 million by the end of the year, just most of those extra sales will happen in Nov/Dec.  Still, I think this could very well go on to sell ~ 8 mil when all is said and done.  Then again, who knows?  Maybe this Gears will just be more frontloaded than the first 2 and still end with lifetimes sales around 6-7 million.

@ OP

Great numbers for Gears and congrats to the 360.  Of course, if MS wants to keep this momentum going they need to cut the price now.  Otherwise, the PS3 is going to be back in front within a week or 2.

VGC estimate Gears 3 week 2 sales to be around 400-500k in Americas, so WW 600k is likely. That would put Gears 3 at 3.7 million for the start of October, and likely 4 million for the week after that. 5 million for end of October is probably unlikely, but with sales of 100k weekly or so, it should break 5 million before the end of the November, and maybe 5.5 million for the end of 2011? That's still good.

As long as Gears 3 tops Gears 1 and 2, I'm happy. It may be front loaded, but Black Ops was front loaded and it still topped MW3. I think Gears should break 7 million, no problem. 8 million is the debate.