Mygamercard.net is a place that tracks Xbox 360 gamercards. A gamercard is what every person that has a 360 has. When they are online, the gamercard information is submitted to Microsoft's servers.
What does the gamercard have on it? It contains gamerscore information (achievement details, when it was unlocked, total scores, ect), as well as the list of your most recently played Xbox 360 games.
This information is then given, or user-submitted (by letting MGC know your gamertag name), and the information is formed into what games are being played on a weekly basis by every Xbox 360 owner on the website. Since many X360s are always, or almost always online, the information is constantly updated, allowing us to see how many people have played a game in the past week, and the total number of cards that have played a particular game in it's history.
I've been working awhile on trying to compensate the VGChartz data with MGC, and I think the 4.0~4.5 multiplier works for new(er) releases.
Actually, Forza 1 in Europe outsold it's counterpart in the United States and Canada, so it's not unlikely that FM2 has done the same in Europe as well. MGC has around 100,000 of the 221,000 gamercards associated with the US.
Lets put it this way:
Countries with the most cards associated with it:
United States: 811,000 unique gamercards
United Kingdom: 202,000 unique gamercards
Canada: 77,000 unique gamercards
France: 46,000 unique gamercards
UK has 25% of the US's totals, Canada has just under 10%, and France has 5% of the US's totals.
However, with Forza Motorsports 2:
United States: 96,000 unqiue gamercards
United Kingdom: 42,000 unique gamercards
Canada: 12,000 unqiue gamercards
France: 10,000 unique gamercards
Assuming the numbers are correct (which they are fairly close), despite the UK having 1/4th the install base of the 360 versus the US, it has 43% the cards associated with a UK gamertag vs. the US. Therefore, the attach rate of FM2 to a UK 360 owner is nearly twice that of a US owner. These numbers are mimiced in Chart Track numbers as FM2 has held #1 for 3 weeks in the UK in the overall charts. Likewise, despite France having 5% of the total install base vs. the US, it has more than 10% of the userbase of FM2.
Likewise, even in Canada, it has almost double that of French cards, but the cards associated with FM2 are almost the same. Quite the contrast, eh?
Therefore, the average attach rate of Forza to any given gamer in the UK and France is TWICE that of it in the United States. This shows that FM2 is far more popular in Europe than the US. Will it translate into twice the sales? I am unsure, but it does trend to show that it could be pretty huge there.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
