Gears 2 is not bundled in the UK.  It is true that the game is bundled in almost all non-english-speaking territories.

So essentially, you are arguing that the massive success of the Xbox 360 in wider Europe is fueling sales of Gears of War 2.

So why bring it up then?

If it doesn't have an impact on sales, or since we don't know if it had any impact, why bring it up?  We're talking about sales, No?

You were leading.  Of course you didn't say it affected sales, but that's where you were trying to go with that convo and insinuated (sp?) with bringing it up in a sales discussion.

Don't backtrack Starcraft, be incorrect.

@ starcraft: nor existed...

.... almost every retailchain had a uncharted bundle

I'm sure of it, because i was in doubt if i should buy one

Actually, there are many possible reasons I may have brought Uncharted up in this thread.

The actual reason of course, is that you and your Sony friends did first.  Talking about sales.

Here.

Of course, you now have two links showing just how correct my posts were.

What can you give to back up your speculation riddled rhetoric?

You're from "wayyyyyyyyy up north" :p

I remember GEOW 1 bundles in EU in xmas 06

"so thats where it got most of its sales from...."

THIS is the kind of stupid assumption that is being made

YES the game was bundled but at the most it got the 100K or so extra sales....nothing more.

Same with motorstorm.....at the most the bundling got Motorstorm 500K sales...

that puts it still at 2.9 Million hence why I say Motorstorm PR is a HUGE flop

OMFG people always jump the gun "didn't live up to expectations, hype crap".

what a couple of months before you go spouting bs like this. And anyway my WW prediction was 800,000-1,400,000, 1st week WW. I may of oversetimated, i realise that now.

The same thing could happen to you doubters "lucky to sell 1.5-2 million".

Don't understimate LBP. what goes around comes around.

It's something I can't understand.

They keep hyping every ps3 exclusive as the next super-ube-huge-amazing-awesome-multi-million-seller thing so everything always ends up disappointing and the post-game it's always about managing expectations vs. reality.

Lair, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet, Uncharted, MGS4 (well, this one did deliver on everything so it met the hype), LBP, etc...

Me neither, it's much better than being quiet and just shutting your mouth and then having the game come in and save a console than making the game look like the 2nd coming of Jesus (which LBP is not by any stretch of the imagination) and then have it come in with decent software sales. You just open yourself up for some serious retribution with that. I feel like 500k is a good amount for a game, but definetly nothing amazing. We'll see how it goes form here.