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THQ has already revealed that its shooter Homefront is the most pre-ordered for the publisher with 200K copies pre-purchased. Core Games boss Danny Bilson has made it clear that he's prepared to compete with EA and Activision in the shooter market and he believes Homefront has the quality to do so. According to Lazard Capital Markets' Colin Sebastian, the title should get off to a solid start.

"Next week’s launch of Homefront will mark an important milestone for software publisher THQ as it seeks to regain momentum in the core game market. We are modeling sell-in of roughly 1.5M units for Homefront this month," he said.

Call of Duty: Black Ops took the industry by storm last fall/holiday and judging by what we saw at GDC last week, EA's Battlefield 3 looks stunning, so THQ will certainly have its hands full in competing with EA and Activision in the shooter genre.

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/thq-to-ship-15-million-homefront-copies-this-month-says-analyst/

So 3 million lifetime is possible like I perdicted. Or should I say it's not entirely impossible.

Predictions I see in my thread show  a FAR more pessimistic view, not even over 400k FW...

I don't know why they are shipping so many copies....I think it will have a lower opening then Bulletstorm.

Good then I can wait just a little and buy it at a reduced price due to overshipping.

Actually that is incorrect. The 200k pre-orders was in the US only.

"Bilson didn't reveal worldwide numbers, though he noted that 200,000 pre-orders have been made in the US alone"

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/03/homefront-is-most-pre-ordered-title-in-thq-history/

Hmm well that would make more sense. So VGC is undertracking it quite a bit.

Good. Next month I'm visiting some relatives in New Mexico

I'll pick up a copy of Homefront while I'm there

Judging from the preorders I think THQ is

Well in that case I take back what I said.

I guess Homefront does have a chance at coming close to Bulletstorm FW numbers.