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Forums - Sales - Americas Pre-Order Chart 07th May 2011

hudsoniscool on 11 May 2011
Machina said:
hudsoniscool said:
Machina said:
yo_john117 said:
BenVTrigger said:

Gears 3 as always is just insane.  We could be looking at one of, if not THE BIGGEST exlusive launches ever.  I mean it is destroying Halo Reach in pre-orders in a similar time frame.

Brink looks good on the 360 as well for a new IP.  Hope it gets great sales cause it looks awesome.

And more people need to go pre-order Infamous 2, it easily looks like a GOTY contender for sure.

Gears 3 may be destroying right now but I just can't see it having all those 100, 200, 300k weeks that Halo Reach had at the end.

Even if it managed to just stay flat from here on out it'd still hit 1.7 million though, so it doesn't necessarily need any 200 or 300k weeks.

it wont stay flat from here out. It will drop to 20-30 k in a week or 2 and will stay there untill 3 or 4 weeks until launch. It will have between 1.1-1.5 million preorders here. Guys there is no chance of gears 3 being as big as reach. halo 3 has sold more than 11 million copies and reach is outpacing that. gears 1 n 2 have sold about 6 million copies(thats were odst is). Gears 3 wont sudenly double its predicessers sells.

gears 3 2.2 million fw in americas 500k everywere else. 2.7 million FW ww.

Why would it drop to, and stay at, 20-30k, when even at its lowest before the Beta it had 27k? Perhaps it will, but at this stage the figures suggest it's perfectly possible that Gears 3 could get more pre orders than Reach (I made no mention of lifetime, it's not relevant).


halo 3 has more lifetime sales than halo 2, with bigger fw, gears 2 has more LT sales than gears 1, also has bigger fw. mass effect 2 same story as with fallout NV(or it will soon). odst had smaller fw than halo 2 thus less lifetime sales. Its the same with 2 games from almost any series excluding games when there is a noticable drop in quality.

   Is it just me or is there a trend there.

It is not plausible that gears3 has more pre-orders than reach. in america halo is twice as popular as gears. gears 3 has more pre-orders for 2 reason 1 because the game was previously supposed to come out in april, thus people were pre ordering the game last year when they thought it was coming out sooner. If there wasnt a beta i think the game would have had 2-10k pre-order weeks up until this point.  And 2 you basically had to pre-order it to get into the beta.

  The reason i expect it to drop to 20-30k weekly is because a few 100 thousand people(i believe up to 450k people) pre-ordered the game in the past few weeks or months that would not have if there wasnt a beta. those people would have done it much closer to launch. That is also the reason i think it will only have 1(small chance at 2) 100k week before launch.

  Im not some sony fanboy who just wants to down microsoft, quit the opposite im a xbox "Fanboy". People shouldnt think to far into pre-order numbers they are very misleading. Gears of war isnt anywere near as popular as halo



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.