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 ?

Hopefully final figures are above 600k in NA and another 700k in EMEAA.

Man, you're SO gonna be dissapointed

It doesn't work that way for hardcore games. On a game like this the rise is probably 10-20% of the pre-orders.

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 .

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.