Gears of War 2 sales officially over 4 million

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dolemit3 on 15 January 2009

It's double the pace of the first game:

Speaking exclusively to GameDaily BIZ, Gears of War 2 global product manager Guy Welch announced that the title sold over 4 million copies in its first two months on the market. This is double the pace of the original Gears of War, which sold 2 million during that period.

"The original Gears of War was the fastest-selling next-generation game of 2006, selling more than 2 million units worldwide that Holiday, and now well over 5 million copies sold to date," said Welch. "With Gears of War 2, the game has sold over 4 million units in the first two months, doubling the pace of the original."

The VGChartz numbers are at 4.34 million and are well in agreement.

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Shadowblind on 15 January 2009

Wow. Gears of War has now officially become the newest MASSIVE selling game series. Sales like this can fit on the sales pedistal with game series like Halo and GTA.

Congrats Epic, on finally finding that winning formula. Now if only Namco can find it with the Tales series...

GOTY Contestants this year: Dead Space 2, Dark Souls, Tales of Graces f. Everything else can suck it.

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KatinJin on 15 January 2009

Can't wait for Bigjon's spin. Oh no, VGC must be overtracking they only say over 4 million not 4.3.

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MonstaMack on 15 January 2009

They had a winning formula with Unreal Tournament years ago, but people seemed to forget the greatness that was UT (or got tired of it :P).

Gears 2 is improved in every way except multi player because of the glitches and the time it takes to find multi player matchs. Theres no reason it should take five minutes to find a match.

With that said, there are new achivements and a matchmaking as well as exploit patch due by the end of January.

It's just that simple.