Italy:

Finally, gears 2 don't bomb in Italy. I expect numbers around 35-40k. For France, we must be not sure, because there is the limited edition of the game, which maybe is charted in the top 10, and we must not forget the copy of the game sold in the bundle.

http://www.forumeye.it/invision/index.php?showtopic=462391&st=40

Italia
Week 45 03-09 Novembre

01 PES 2009 PS2 100
02 Gears Of War 2 360 53,62
03 PES 2009 PS3 15,77
04 Little Big Planet PS3 11,11
05 Mario Kart WII 9,49
06 FIFA 09 PS2 9,18
07 Wii Fit WII 8,81
08 Fallout 3 PS3 6,44
09 PES 2009 PSP 6,29
10 PES 2009 360 6,09
11 Wii Play WII 5,56
12 Fallout 3 360 5,35
13 Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm PS3 4,70
14 Brain Training DS 4,18
15 Fable 2 360 3,71

Motorstorm 2 è 50° 1,32


Fonte: GFK

Are you serious? Football Manager is always one of the best selling PC titles of the year in Europe (for sure it's the best selling of those who come out yearly)

We Germans love our football. Look at the UK Top 10 of this week. It had quite a nice debut

I think that Gears 2 sales on vgchartz are a bit too high.

After good 250k start in UK sales and positions from mainland Europe seems rather dissapointing.
In second biggest market (France) Gears 2 debuted only on 3rd place, in 3rd biggest (Germany) it didn't sell at all and started rather modest in 5th biggest market (Italy) with around 40k sales (Halo 3 debutet with 37k for comparision). Spain is yet to be posted.

In smaller markets Gears seems to sell a bit better with 1st place in Australia, Sweden, Norway and Ireland but with lower places in Denmark and Netherlands (either week 45 and 46).

Personally I would put Gears 2 a bit below 0.5 mln for PAL region. I won't be surprised if numbers will be adjusted down for it. LBP may be ajusted down also.

Italy, week ended November 09

01 [Ps2] PES 2009 (81.750)
02 [360] Gears Of War 2 (46.600)
03 [Ps3] PES 2009 (13.500)
04 [Ps3] Little Big Planet (9.550)
05 [Wii] Wii Fit (9.150)
06 [Wii] Mario Kart Wii (8.150)
07 [Ps2] FIFA 09 (7.900)
08 [Psp] PES 2009 (5.450)
09 [360] PES 2009 (5.300)
10 [Ps3] Fallout 3 (5.000)

www.gfk.it

Ps3] Fallout 3  (5.000)

Fallout 3 limited 550

total 5.550

prosugno, you have the numbers for each editions of gears of war 2 in Italy, to see if in France, gears 2 limited can have sold 20 000 copies

Thanks for the update:

Italy, week ended November 09
01 [Ps2] PES 2009 (81.750)
02 [360] Gears Of War 2 (46.600)
03 [Ps3] PES 2009 (13.500)
04 [Ps3] Little Big Planet (9.550)
05 [Wii] Wii Fit (9.150)
06 [Wii] Mario Kart Wii (8.150)
07 [Ps2] FIFA 09 (7.900)
08 [Ps3] Fallout 3 (5.550)
09 [Psp] PES 2009 (5.450)
10 [360] PES 2009 (5.300)

www.gfk.it

ITALY
gears of war 2 limited 28.600

gears of war 2 18.000

Interesting, so maybe in France, the limited edition of gears of war 2 can have sold 20 000 copies.

The top 10 will say us, if it's possible or not.

For comparison, i know that there was only 10 000 fable 2 limited sold in France, which made rank 9 during the week 43.