The recent Gameplay videos and trailers are luring in more fans, preorders are steadily increasing, the WW 1st week should be huge. And last but not least, Others should equally contribute.

I think we will see1.5 million atleast in week one.

Europe Advertising already started if i'm not wrong....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnefA5Ek_bs

i think it could reach the 500k mark on europe, and 1M in america could be possible.

haven't seen it yet

maybe they didn't want to mix the HR advertising with the GOW3, so in that way, HR could have more sales. i reckon that next week the advertising will start WW.

There's still time left for Europe release, 3 days later than NA which is March 19th, so advertising can afford to wait.

With a Kevin Butler commercial = 1.5m sales
Without a Kevin Butler commercial = 1m sales

Yes, Kevin Butler is that important.

There is a good possibility of 1.5 million first week.

Of course I fall into the 1 to 1.2 million unit range WW fw.

Since there isn't a real reason to pre-order GoW 3 anymore (except Gamestop's pre order bonus, stores aren't doing pre orders for the Ultimate Edition anymore), pre orders won't likely increase by much in the lead up to release, but there's no way a PS3 owner, potential owner or just walk in customer has not heard about GoW 3.

So pre orders (imo) can't really be used to gauge first week sales to accurately.

another fan made trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umg-t7JDwsM

I'd kinda be shocked if it didn't do 1mil+in it's first week