According to an IM I recieved from ioi earlier today. So don't take it out of context (and blame me, not him for the title).

ioi let me know that Gears of War 2 is shaping up to be between 350,000-400,000 in the United Kingdom alone. That's roughly 3 times as much as Fable 2 (which sold 300k in all of PAL).

So taken into context, Halo 3 sold 411,000 units on it's first week, with 5 days to track. Unless there'd be some sort of insane dropoff, or unexpected extrapolation(s), that would put Gears of War 2 on a pace to beat Halo 3 in the UK in short order. GTAIV will most likely be safe, but it may outsell Halo 3's LTD at some point. That's amazing, but not entirely unexpected: Europeans have enjoyed Gears far better than Halo. If you look at the teir ratios of Halo 2, Halo 3 and, Gears of War, PAL territories had a much better attach rate for Gears than either Halo did, versus the United States.

I guess we'll have to stay tuned for the official numbers tommorow, but it should be on a faster pace than H3 was. Not only this, with 350-400k in UK alone, that *should* put all of PAL at 900,000-1,000,000 total unit sales in 2 days. Impressive, Starfox!

I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe that GoW2 would outsell Halo 3, I guess I'll wait for MC numbers tomorrow to find out.

Are we talking about over 3,000,000 sales in less than 2 days?

I think Cliffy will be drinking champagne with the boys in the Sauna tonight!

AWESOME!
Can't wait for the numbers!
over 1mil in Others; Over 2 Mil in N.A.
about 4 mil. in 2 days!!!
Big drop offs coming though I'm afraid. but still . . .

No, not quite, Squilliam.

Gears of War 2 is still (seemingly) below Halo 3 in the USA by a decent margin. However, Europe may be a different story.

Gears 2 will prolly boost hardware sales in Europe a little.

Keep in mind they'll be charting only 2 days, verses 5 days for Halo 3, so don't act like it was ownage. We're talking pace, not static.

I made the mistake of thinking that the estimates you posted earlier were just the Americas, Im so used to having PAL come a few days after, so I got a little muddled.

That much only in Uk, thats really good.

Gears 2 is blazing the charts...but it's hardly anything unexpected. It was shaping up to be a HUGE release, and it didn't disappoint. I think 360 is well poised to stay with the pack for 2008 holiday season and beyond with titles like this on tap.