Can Starcraft II beat MW2 for it's first week sales record?

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Gilgamesh on 26 July 2010

Modern Warfare 2 sold 4.9 million first week on the X360, does Starcraft II have a chance of beating that record? pre-orders for only America are at 800K so it could do close to 1.5 million in just America.

Let's say:

America: 1.5 million

EMEAA: 2 million

Japan: 1.5 million

That seems somewhat plausible, still not looking great. What do you guys think will it even come close?

Also will we even have sales for it, since VG Chartz doesn't display PC weekly sales, will Starcraft II be an exception?

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Carl on 26 July 2010

It wont beat MW2 at retail.

VGC will be tracking it.

Add in the Downloaded sales, and maybe...

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c0rd on 26 July 2010

I doubt it.

Also, it isn't Japan that would be at 1.5 million, that would be Asia (S. Korea in particular). EMEAA at 2 million, America at 1.5mil sounds a little too high as well.

If I had to guess, I'd say around 3.5-4 million

edit: I'm sure the sales number will come out either way, assuming it breaks PC game records (set by WoW:WotLK)

edit2: Hoping ioi comes in and tells me I'm wrong

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Hiko on 26 July 2010

If there is a game at the omoent that can beat that record, it would be Starcraft II. But I doubt it will, it might come close but not beat it. Some pirates will find a way to bypass the system for all the people out there who want to play the single game alone.

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Calmador on 26 July 2010

I think it's quite possible...

It's looking great so far and I've kinda stopped pc gaming for a while and with Starcraft 2 coming out I just might get back to do a little PC gaming on the side just for it.

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