SO now you've decided to just troll if you can't correctly answer to an argument

epic fail kirby....expected better from you! :(

@katinjin

this argument has been done TO DEATH

Majority of the sales are done in FIRST DAY (of first week saleS) no matter what day this is.

So majority of the Halo 3 week 1 sales were done on that 1st day

if GEOW 2 was even released on a Tuesday....its figures would not be different by much at all

Special cases ---- LBP & Uncharted which had street dates broken....

you just assume things early...

@KatinJin: You're wrong. How big of a drop do you expect from Gears in second week?

To match Halo 3 first week (4 days) with 2 weeks of sales (9 days) it would have to drop only 33%. But it won't. It will drop harder. Vast majority of UK games have 2 days just like Gears, they aren't as hardcore and as massive but often drop 50% or more. If Fable II dropped 51% so what can be expected from Gears?

And if it won't match Halo 3 first week sales in 9-days period I can't see how could it do in 4-days (that's what Halo 3 had I'm not sure why everyone is saying it had 5 days. It had 5 days only in NA not in EU).

 Some special cases where the publisher pushes a WW date. On the issue of Halo 3 and Gears 2 comparison yea that would be a bit tougher since it is 2 days versus 4 as I was thinking 5. Although still believe it could be on top Week 2 as well and be relativly not that far behind the launch of H3. VGC is off about 100k on the low estimate end for the UK, but I highly doubt the NA numbers are off that much.

As do you,.......we could clearly see that from the LBP sales threads last week

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@Everyone else

GEOW 2 doesn't need to beat Halo 3 in first week

its doing fantastic.....don't raise your expectations so high that things will be disappointments.....such as my expectations of Motorstorm : PR

Stop arguing, we'll know very soon, the truth.

why didn't you say this in the first place?

good post

@kamil

2 extra days would have brought the game closer, especially in the first 4 days of the games release. The problem is you're trying to compare the first 2 days of Gears to the first 4-5 days of Halo 3.

Which is fine.

However, you're doing it in an attempt to flame Gears 2. You keep saying the two extra days are insignificant, but that's bullshit, and you should acknowledge it.

If Gears 2 only reached 300k in the two extra days, then your "revelation" is bogus.

Let's just wait for ioi. He sees the chart-track numbers more than the rest of us, and he'll give us the final numbers for the game. It's not the end of the world, however, if it doesnt' outsell Halo 3. Especially if it's gimped with 2 days on the market, instead of 4, so relax.