According to http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=41981&start=0 on average 4,009 copies of gears of war on average was preorderd at gamestops throughout the untited states.

According to http://www.gamestop.com/gs/help/About_Us.aspx there are 4,400 stores in the united states.

I know not all the store are the same so I will say around one million preorders at gamestop alone. so t would have to be 1 million + preorders.

And imagine if you add the preorders with European preorders.

This game could get to 1.5-1.6 million preorders in all.

These are just my thoughts that I believe can come true.

Would like to hear your opinions on this....

This can get as big as Halo...

{sigh}

There is no way that any store in the world has over 4,000 copies of ANY game reserved.

lol

 HA..

mabye it's the only gamestop in New York.

Didn't Too Human have 1 million pre-orders?

I came in here expecting well-sourced fact....

 Now you have two well sourced facts.

mm 4.000 seems like too much

You obviously didn't look at the person who created the thread.