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yo_john117 on 06 November 2011
mjk45 said:
yo_john117 said:
mjk45 said:
yo_john117 said:
mjk45 said:
kowenicki said:
Halo REACH... will... er reach 9m before the holidays and then a further little boost should occur I hope.

After 6 weeks Gears 3 now has 71% of Gears 1 lifetime sales and 69% of Gears 2 lifetime sales.

Based on those figure how much more do you see Gears 3 selling over the first two ,  I feel  about 4 mill on top of Gears 2

No way man! That would be 10 million! 

Personally I think 7-8 million will be the max. 

Yes my  4 Mill is on the high side and optimistic but I came up with that figure on the basis that it has almost sold 3/4 of what the other 2 sold LTD in 6 weeks and if it continues on that path with some bundling then it can get close ,even  if it drops off I still think Kowen's  9 mill is gettable.

IDK I guess the reason I think that's nigh impossible to get 9 or 10 million is because for the past couple of weeks it's been selling significantly less than Gears 2 did. Now I know that Gears 2 released later than Gears 3 did in the year so it had the benefit of Holiday sales from launch until the end of the year but Gears 3 is still selling rather low even though the Holiday sales have started up.

Good point trust me to assume that with great early sales it was still selling above gears 2 , also Seeing that the series is some what front loaded I thought this one might turn that around ,anyway it was Patchers fault he made me do it.

It's always Pachters fault



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Reasonable on 06 November 2011
ArmGunar said:
Only 550k in USA, that's very disappointing for the biggest exclusive game of this year for PS3 ...

If USA, the biggest market, did 550k, what will EMEAA do ? 400k ?


Only if you believe the sales pattern of the game was going to magically change.  Uncharted 2 opened to less and is looking to finish LTD just north of 5 Million.  Gears 2 - to give the kind of game you're referencing - opened much bigger but had much lower ongoing sales and is around 6 million so far.

Uncharted titles simply have less fronted loaded sales patterns.  Based on the numbers so far Uncharted 3 will open higher than Uncharted 2 and assuming - and there seems little reason not to - that it follows the same sales pattern then it will finish LTD with more than 5 million in sales.

No every game is front loaded and TBH too much focus and expectation is given to games automatically being front loaded IMHO.

If Uncharted 3 opens to more than 1 million at this point, with a holiday period to give it strong opening legs then it'll be performing well against the franchise's own baseline.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 06 November 2011

SW is up YoY ~20% for XB360 and ~40% for PS3. Yes, BF3 helped a lot this week, but SW has been very often up YoY for both at least since Summer's end.



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mjk45 on 06 November 2011
yo_john117 said:
mjk45 said:
yo_john117 said:
mjk45 said:
yo_john117 said:
mjk45 said:
kowenicki said:
Halo REACH... will... er reach 9m before the holidays and then a further little boost should occur I hope.

After 6 weeks Gears 3 now has 71% of Gears 1 lifetime sales and 69% of Gears 2 lifetime sales.

Based on those figure how much more do you see Gears 3 selling over the first two ,  I feel  about 4 mill on top of Gears 2

No way man! That would be 10 million! 

Personally I think 7-8 million will be the max. 

Yes my  4 Mill is on the high side and optimistic but I came up with that figure on the basis that it has almost sold 3/4 of what the other 2 sold LTD in 6 weeks and if it continues on that path with some bundling then it can get close ,even  if it drops off I still think Kowen's  9 mill is gettable.

IDK I guess the reason I think that's nigh impossible to get 9 or 10 million is because for the past couple of weeks it's been selling significantly less than Gears 2 did. Now I know that Gears 2 released later than Gears 3 did in the year so it had the benefit of Holiday sales from launch until the end of the year but Gears 3 is still selling rather low even though the Holiday sales have started up.

Good point trust me to assume that with great early sales it was still selling above gears 2 , also Seeing that the series is some what front loaded I thought this one might turn that around ,anyway it was Patchers fault he made me do it.

It's always Pachters fault

 Patcher = Best damn scape goat there ever was, hope he doesn't visit the middle east they like to eat goat , then again they might be dissapointed if they make Goats head soup out of him.



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oniyide on 06 November 2011
Reasonable said:
ArmGunar said:
Only 550k in USA, that's very disappointing for the biggest exclusive game of this year for PS3 ...

If USA, the biggest market, did 550k, what will EMEAA do ? 400k ?


Only if you believe the sales pattern of the game was going to magically change.  Uncharted 2 opened to less and is looking to finish LTD just north of 5 Million.  Gears 2 - to give the kind of game you're referencing - opened much bigger but had much lower ongoing sales and is around 6 million so far.

Uncharted titles simply have less fronted loaded sales patterns.  Based on the numbers so far Uncharted 3 will open higher than Uncharted 2 and assuming - and there seems little reason not to - that it follows the same sales pattern then it will finish LTD with more than 5 million in sales.

No every game is front loaded and TBH too much focus and expectation is given to games automatically being front loaded IMHO.

If Uncharted 3 opens to more than 1 million at this point, with a holiday period to give it strong opening legs then it'll be performing well against the franchise's own baseline.


As usual you're one of the few people here making sense. This whole Uncharted3 flopped is nonsense.

Anyway, damn at HOTD PS3 had a bigger opening than the Wii one. How the hell does that work. Lets get a sequel



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oniyide on 06 November 2011

At least in the Americas