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M.U.G.E.N on 23 January 2011

nah I doubt it but 360 isn't exactly getting a lot of excluisve love at the moment so I would imagine this game will do better than Gears 1 and 2 with fan demand building



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Cirio on 23 January 2011

It will be the highest selling Gears game with the biggest opening in the franchise for sure. But I doubt it will have the legs to sell 10 million. Gears is popular, but no where near as popular as Halo and Call of Duty. I think it will sell around 7-8 million max, which is freaking incredible anyways.



BenVTrigger on 23 January 2011

To me 7 million is all but guaranteed for the game, it looks phenominal both graphically and gameplay wise.  Easily in my top 3 most anticipated games this year.

10 million I'm not so sure about but I do think its possible.  Personally though I'm gonna predict 7.5 - 8 million.



ssj12 on 23 January 2011
Shadowblind said:
ssj12 said:

god I hope not, it far from deserves it. 8 million tops.


I agree, Gears 3 was terrible. And that ending, could you believe it? I never would have guessed that Marcus Fenix was actually Nathan Drake from the future where Sony took over the world and transformed all the Xbox fanboys into horrible mutant lambent. What a terrible twist. Deserves 2 copies sold, maybe. Although I did like the Rainbow Unicorn costume varient for Dom . . . but the surprise karaoke at the ending where they all sing the latest Justin Beiber songs was too much.

OT: If they ditched the horribly sterile and overdone "lolmilitary vs aliens" theme of 2 and go back to the original nitty-gritty dark shooter that started the whole trend in the first place I'd hope it does do ten mil. Frankly Gears 2 was lucky to even get what it sold, imo, whereas Gears 1 should've sold even more.

Truthfully I just find that the game has become boring. No matter how many coats of paint you put over old gameplay to "improve" it, it still ends up basically the same. This is why I hate shooters in general. They can be fun, but unless they have all their mechanics right while adding new dimension then its a generic game not worthy of anything above an 8/10. Be very glad there isn't any new Halo or Gears shooters for PC, I would not be nice to it in any means just because of its hype. Halo: CE, Gears, and Halo 2 PC all were generic with everything they had to offer and was done many of times before hand, and better on PC.

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Joel12345 on 23 January 2011

Nope,not going to happen.



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morpheusx on 23 January 2011
BenVTrigger said:

To me 7 million is all but guaranteed for the game, it looks phenominal both graphically and gameplay wise.  Easily in my top 3 most anticipated games this year.

10 million I'm not so sure about but I do think its possible.  Personally though I'm gonna predict 7.5 - 8 million.


I agree with everything you just said. The biggest unknown for me is the Kinect rumors and if that could possibly bump it another million or 2 and if MS bundles it with a special edition xbox which is something they haven't ever done for a gears release.



toadslayer72 on 23 January 2011
morpheusx said:
BenVTrigger said:

To me 7 million is all but guaranteed for the game, it looks phenominal both graphically and gameplay wise.  Easily in my top 3 most anticipated games this year.

10 million I'm not so sure about but I do think its possible.  Personally though I'm gonna predict 7.5 - 8 million.


I agree with everything you just said. The biggest unknown for me is the Kinect rumors and if that could possibly bump it another million or 2 and if MS bundles it with a special edition xbox which is something they haven't ever done for a gears release.

Yeah good point, I didn't think about Kinect. Not saying it's gonna happen but if it does then I agree, a nice little bump.



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De85 on 23 January 2011

I highly doubt it.  Given that 2 failed to dramatically increase sales over 1 I doubt 3 will jump that high.  With that said, 6-7M sales is still solid and highly respectable, and would put it into the top 1% of games when all is said and done...



tendoronie67 on 23 January 2011

Noooooo I believe 8.5 MAX



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mantlepiecek on 23 January 2011

Its possible because there are are only two games releasing this year from what we know, exclusively on 360. Due to lack of competition, it will outsell gears 2. 10 million will be difficult to reach.