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dolemit3 on 08 November 2008

Gears of War 2 Tracking: ~3.0-3.5m first week projection

Why so low? Bomba confirmed?



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KatinJin on 08 November 2008

Exactly the difference between Gears and GTA or Halo for that matter will be the 2 versus 5 days for week one. However it mostly certainly will track probably very close to 5 days of GTA IV I don't really doubt that. Since it is two days perhaps 2.5 million is a more reasonable estimate. Of course, Gears 2 has the luxury of a bigger install base over both those as well. I also believe the sky is the limit for both November and December NPD when it comes to Gears.



reask on 08 November 2008

If you are correct this is going to be there biggest game yet.

Altough I would go with zen to be honest.



 

 

 

 

Hyruken on 08 November 2008

The thing which makes me laugh is you got people saying LittleBigPlanet with all its hype selling 200k in 1 week = huge. If Gears 2 does sell 3.5m in 1 week what would you call that exactly?!

Personally i think that might be a tad too high though as that as mentioned is Halo 3 numbers. Most normal people dont even know this game is out as has been no advertising or anything here. I would say 2m max then will grow as xmas gets closer.



Shadowblind on 08 November 2008
Hyruken said:
The thing which makes me laugh is you got people saying LittleBigPlanet with all its hype selling 200k in 1 week = huge. If Gears 2 does sell 3.5m in 1 week what would you call that exactly?!

Personally i think that might be a tad too high though as that as mentioned is Halo 3 numbers. Most normal people dont even know this game is out as has been no advertising or anything here. I would say 2m max then will grow as xmas gets closer.

Its already sold 2.1 million on its first day....

 



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Ender on 08 November 2008

I live in chicago and I had to travel to 3 different stores before I was able to find it in stock.  I went to sears, blockbuster then finally a gamestop.  And if you can believe it I got the last copy at gamestop.  Oh, and I tried 7-11, but they didn't seem like they knew what GoW2 was, even though they had a sign for it hanging up in their store.



Tyrannical on 08 November 2008

When Halo 3 launched, there were about 12M 360s sold. When GoW2 launched there was 22M
With 10M more consoles, GoW2 could easily beat Halo 3 launch numbers.



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Zucas on 08 November 2008
quarashi said:
mrstickball said:
Oh, and to finish:

Halo 3 sold 1.8m units Day-1 worldwide (if I'm not mistaken). Gears 2 is within 80% of that, or just under 1.5m units on Day-1.

I thought it was ~2.7m Day-1 in the US alone. It broke every record including the one held by Halo 2 which launched on day-1 with 2.4m

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/49161

 

Yes it does seem we have wrong numbers as 1.8 million was not the day 1 worldwide.  Maybe he meant 2.8 million.

 



el_rika on 08 November 2008

I think it'll have very front loaded sales. Basically everyone that wants the game will buy it first few days.
I'm guessing 70% of its life time sales will be the first 5 - 7 days.



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kirby007 on 08 November 2008
DMeisterJ said:
This estimation is 100 percent silly.

Well under 3 million for the opening two days. I'm saying 2.0-2.5 million max. No way this is bigger than Halo 3 or close to GTA IV.

lol you know how too make silly predictions dont you



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