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Which will give a bigger WW boost

Tales of Xillia 29 25.89%
 
Gears of War 3 68 60.71%
 
similar boosts 15 13.39%
 
Total:112
postofficebuddy on 06 September 2011
Marks said:
Gears...by a country mile


Neither one will win 'by a country mile'. Gears is a much smaller franchise than Halo and the boost will likely be noticably smaller than Reach, and possibly smaller than 3. Xillia will probably top out at around the same boost as MHTri. So regardless of which one wins it won't be by a significant margin. Personally I think the Xillia boost will edge out the Gears boost by a small 3k-8k margin.



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Jay520 on 06 September 2011

Gears 3.

The PS3 is already riding a 'boost'. The X360 is pretty low now so it's boost will be higher.



MARCUSDJACKSON on 06 September 2011

close call



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Gears.



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wilco on 06 September 2011
smroadkill15 said:
Lord_Yggdrassil said:
Xilia. ,most who wants gears has a 360. The boost will be very small.

People said the same thing about Halo: Reach and look the huge boost it gave. 

To be fair, the new xbox model had just come out when halo reach was released.



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smroadkill15 on 06 September 2011
wilco said:
smroadkill15 said:
Lord_Yggdrassil said:
Xilia. ,most who wants gears has a 360. The boost will be very small.

People said the same thing about Halo: Reach and look the huge boost it gave. 

To be fair, the new xbox model had just come out when halo reach was released.


Ya about 3 months earlier. The 360 was still riding the boost from the slim model when Reach released and added about another 100k doing about 250k that week. I still remember people saying Reach wouldn't move any HW because most people that wanted Reach had a 360 already. I'm not saying Gears 3 will move HW like Reach did, but it sure as hell will move about 50-100k extra for that week.  



FinalEvangelion on 06 September 2011

Gears, bro.



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Marks on 06 September 2011
postofficebuddy said:
Marks said:
Gears...by a country mile


Neither one will win 'by a country mile'. Gears is a much smaller franchise than Halo and the boost will likely be noticably smaller than Reach, and possibly smaller than 3. Xillia will probably top out at around the same boost as MHTri. So regardless of which one wins it won't be by a significant margin. Personally I think the Xillia boost will edge out the Gears boost by a small 3k-8k margin.


Gears is Microsoft's 2nd biggest franchise. Xillia is...wait...what is Xillia? Has anyone outside of Japan (or this site) heard of it?

I'm not saying Japan isn't important, I'm just saying Japan hates the Xbox so it won't really matter.

 

Just my opinion, I could be wrong and I'm prepared to eat crow if I am.



postofficebuddy on 07 September 2011
Marks said:
postofficebuddy said:
Marks said:
Gears...by a country mile


Neither one will win 'by a country mile'. Gears is a much smaller franchise than Halo and the boost will likely be noticably smaller than Reach, and possibly smaller than 3. Xillia will probably top out at around the same boost as MHTri. So regardless of which one wins it won't be by a significant margin. Personally I think the Xillia boost will edge out the Gears boost by a small 3k-8k margin.


Gears is Microsoft's 2nd biggest franchise. Xillia is...wait...what is Xillia? Has anyone outside of Japan (or this site) heard of it?

I'm not saying Japan isn't important, I'm just saying Japan hates the Xbox so it won't really matter.

 

Just my opinion, I could be wrong and I'm prepared to eat crow if I am.


Had anyone really heard of Monster Hunter Tri outside of Japan back in '09? Both series are small potatoes outside Japan, doesn't mean they don't move HW inside of it. This prediction has more to do with how hardcore the collectors in Japan are than how big the series is in the overall scheme of things. I'm not even trying to infer that 'Tales of' is a bigger series than Gears. Obviously it's not.



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yo_john117 on 07 September 2011

I think Gears 3 will take it.