Americas Pre-Order Chart: Week Ending 26th Mar 2011

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ithis on 29 March 2011

It's an honet question, don't hate on mee too much because of it:

Couldn't part of GeOW3's high preorder numbers be due to the lack of big 'core' Xbox360 exclusives?

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leatherhat on 29 March 2011

Ping_ii said:

Tridrakious said:

Socom 4 could crush Killzone 3. With minimal advertising. Hell Killzone 3 and Socom 4 were cross advertised. Zipper Interactive is proving how important they are over Guerilla Games.

I just don't belive it seriously....

How can a game like socom out pre-order KZ3 despite less hype?!

The ps2 socoms were incredibally popular, ecspecially in America.

Time for hype

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donsterydo2 on 29 March 2011

ithis said:

It's an honet question, don't hate on mee too much because of it:

Couldn't part of GeOW3's high preorder numbers be due to the lack of big 'core' Xbox360 exclusives?

No, it's just the way we fans of Gears of War roll :D

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dsage01 on 29 March 2011

kowenicki said:

dsage01 said:

kowenicki said:

SpartenOmega117 said:

Anyone else wondering why the 360 version of portal 2 is higher than the ps3 version despite the fact the ps3 version includes the PC version.

well... how about the fact that this is America and in America there are almost twice as many 360's out there than PS3's

lets start there.

I live in one messed up part of the world called North America.

That's a better starter.

No it isnt...

The install being twice as much is THE most important aspect. Not your elitist attitude to your own country. Move if you dont like it.

Do you have problems understanding things? It's called sarcasm. If mortal combat can sell better on the PS3 and the only difference is the Kratos charctor than why can't Portal 2 when it has the PC version! And please don't give me BS about the stuff people say "360 is better for shooters". If it was really that better games like COD would sell better on 360 (for countires outside of America)

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yo_john117 on 29 March 2011

Look at Gears 3 go!!! I know it won't reach the pre-orders that Halo Reach did but i'm gonna compare them anyway :P

Week	Halo Reach	Gears of War 3	Net difference
26	3,959/50,777	30,053/238,422	26,094/187,645
25	8,179/58,956
24	18,947/77,903
23	13,015/90,918
22	12,041/102,959
21	17,885/120,844
20	31,619/152,463
19	19,315/171,778
18	33,137/204,915
17	35,189/240,104
16	30,222/270,326
15	28,359/298,685
14	25,899/324,584
13	25,038/349,622
12	34,437/384,059
11	55,319/439,378
10	38,051/477,429
9	50,884/528,313
8	118,699/647,012
7	126,340/773,352
6	139,346/912,698
5	158,668/1,071,366
4	183,640/1,255,006
3	203,984/1,458,990
2	232,354/1,691,344
1	300,735/1,992,079

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FattyDingDong on 29 March 2011

Oh ok.. that explains why mortal kombat is doing better on the 360! hmm.. wait a sec..

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yo_john117 on 29 March 2011

FattyDingDong said:

Oh ok.. that explains why mortal kombat is doing better on the 360! hmm.. wait a sec..

Certain games sell better on certain platforms.

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enrageorange on 29 March 2011

kowenicki said:

yo_john117 said:

Look at Gears 3 go!!! I know it won't reach the pre-orders that Halo Reach did but i'm gonna compare them anyway :P

Week	Halo Reach	Gears of War 3	Net difference
26	3,959/50,777	30,053/238422	26,094/187645
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oh... i like this.

I predict halo reach will be around the same by 10 weeks. and then blow past it.

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Michael-5 on 29 March 2011

kowenicki said:

ithis said:

It's an honet question, don't hate on mee too much because of it:

Couldn't part of GeOW3's high preorder numbers be due to the lack of big 'core' Xbox360 exclusives?

it could... but it isnt

Gears is a massive franchise.

6m Gears 1

7m likley for Gears 2

proves this.

Now that Bungie finally left Microsoft, the hype for Halo has gone down and Epic Games has an opportunity to gain a bigger fanbase here. Also Gears 3 was announced almost a year ago, where a typical 360 exclusive isn't know about until the year of launch, or even in the case of Forza 3, only four months before release. Ontop of that Gears 3 has the same "Finish the Fight/Trilogy" methedology behind it, and this game is taking 3 years to develop instead of 2 like Gears 2.

If a lack of games was the reason for high Gears3 sales, then Mass Effect 3 (a strongly 360 oriented title), and Forza Motorsport 4 would start to see modest pre-orders, but they don't.

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