USA Pre-Order Chart Up ! - 16th March 2013

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tontus said:

enrageorange said:

platformmaster918 said:
So Gears will open bigger than GoW...but how will its legs be? Traditionally Gears has been very front-loaded while GoW legs it out more.

Gears of War 1 and 2 had much better legs than any current gen god of war game. It was only gears 3 that had terrible legs. Though I do think both games will have terrible legs. Late in the generation and unneeded prequels.

No, God of War III has had much better legs than all of the Gears of War games. It is known to be hugely undertracked and sold 5.2m as of May 30th 2012 making it impossible to judge its legs by Vgchartz estimates, all we know for sure is the fact it did very well up to the 30th May 2012, GoW3 is at around 6 million now and it's climbing fast thanks to the GoW Saga Collection. The God of War Saga Collection includes God of War III and that has been selling VERY well (Vgchartz is probably massively under-tracking that too), it's just a little bit more money than buying GoW3 alone so most people are simple buying that instead. Including the Saga, Trilogy, Omega (not even tracked by Vgchartz) Collections I bet God of War III will outsell Gears of War 2 lifetime, it's not far off now and the Saga Collection is selling so well (and included in the GoW legacy bundle) that it'll eventually put God of War III ahead of Gears of War 2. Also God of War: Ascension will probably outsell GeoW:J lifetime, even if it doesn't open quite as well (it'll be really close).

The UK and Netherlands sales for GOW Ascension are quite dissapointing so I expect Gears to crush it in those regions...but in the rest of Europe, North America and the rest of the world I'm expecting God of War Ascension to outsell Gears of War Judgement. My estimates are

God of War Ascension: 4.15 million

Gears of War Judgement: 3.7 million