Americas Preorders Chart (Through January 23rd)
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Mass Effect 2 and MAG: Massive Action Game are the two big new releases for this week
Mass Effect 2 looks to dominate the big releases this week with over 470,000 preorders. Going by previous pre-order to week one scalars, an opening of over 800,000 in the Americas is looking likely - only Halo, GTA, Call of Duty and Gears of War have had bigger openings on Xbox360 to date. With a strong launch also assured in Europe, Mass Effect 2 should easily pass one million units worldwide in week one.
MAG also looks like having a strong first week - over 300,000 is looking likely although the title benefited from some strong pre-order incentives along with a public beta, both of which will have helped to inflate pre-orders a little hence the seemingly more conservative week one estimate. Two Wii titles also have big releases this week - Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (~70,000 week one) and No More Heroes 2 (~20,000 week one).
Looking ahead, ? of War III continues to add around 10-15k units per week, with increases closer to launch I'd be expecting final pre-orders and week one sales to be similar to Mass Effect 2, possibly a little higher. BioShock 2 looks slightly disappointing based on current pre-orders. The original game sold almost identically to the original Mass Effect but that isn't looking to be the case with the sequels - a week one of around 500,000 combined across Xbox360 (65%) and PS3 (35%) is looking likely, stronger than the original game but not as big as many of the other Q1 2010 releases.
It is interesting to observe some of the Xbox / Playstation splits for multi-platform titles. While Bioshock, Aliens vs Predator and Alpha Protocol show splits in line with the hardware ratio, titles like Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Dante's Inferno and Final Fantasy XIII show splits strongly in favour of PS3 and for various reasons. For Battlefield, the PS3 version has an exclusive demo (you'll notice the 360 version is now starting to catch up as the launch approaches), Dante's Inferno seems to be picking up interest from the ? of War audience and Final Fantasy has always been associated more with the Playstation brand than Xbox.
The full top 30 is shown below:
Pos Name Console Weeks Change Total
1 Mass Effect 2 X360 1 85,497 475,782
2 ? of War III PS3 10 12,433 327,688
3 MAG: Massive Action Game PS3 1 16,461 245,491
4 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PS3 6 6,603 201,461
5 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 X360 6 14,871 149,166
6 BioShock 2 X360 3 21,909 142,740
7 Dante's Inferno PS3 3 18,769 132,150
8 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction X360 14 9,632 126,100
9 Final Fantasy XIII PS3 7 20,243 123,055
10 Pokémon Heart Gold / Soul Silver Version DS 8 14,425 95,248
11 Dante's Inferno X360 3 9,412 68,265
12 BioShock 2 PS3 3 9,717 59,623
13 Final Fantasy XIII X360 7 7,848 57,588
14 Gran Turismo 5 PS3 N/A 1,927 48,451
15 Heavy Rain PS3 5 7,736 48,258
16 Aliens vs. Predator X360 4 8,886 45,339
17 Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars Wii 1 11,060 42,912
18 Super Mario Galaxy 2 Wii N/A 2,442 40,325
19 Alpha Protocol X360 N/A 844 37,077
20 White Knight Chronicles: International Edition PS3 2 5,017 35,627
21 Aliens vs. Predator PS3 4 5,348 27,754
22 Lost Planet 2 X360 N/A 1,019 25,850
23 Halo: Reach X360 N/A 2,468 25,541
24 Red Dead Redemption X360 14 2,266 23,999
25 Lunar: Silver Star Harmony PSP 6 3,759 21,844
26 SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 PSP 4 1,844 21,291
27 Alpha Protocol PS3 N/A 198 21,096
28 Red Dead Redemption PS3 14 1,897 19,718
29 Star Ocean: The Last Hope International PS3 3 2,822 18,963
30 ModNation Racers PS3 N/A 456 18,309
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Mass Effect 2 looks to dominate the big releases this week with over 470,000 preorders. Going by previous pre-order to week one scalars, an opening of over 800,000 in the Americas is looking likely - only Halo, GTA, Call of Duty and Gears of War have had bigger openings on Xbox360 to date. With a strong launch also assured in Europe, Mass Effect 2 should easily pass one million units worldwide in week one.
MAG also looks like having a strong first week - over 300,000 is looking likely although the title benefited from some strong pre-order incentives along with a public beta, both of which will have helped to inflate pre-orders a little hence the seemingly more conservative week one estimate. Two Wii titles also have big releases this week - Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (~70,000 week one) and No More Heroes 2 (~20,000 week one).
Looking ahead, ? of War III continues to add around 10-15k units per week, with increases closer to launch I'd be expecting final pre-orders and week one sales to be similar to Mass Effect 2, possibly a little higher. BioShock 2 looks slightly disappointing based on current pre-orders. The original game sold almost identically to the original Mass Effect but that isn't looking to be the case with the sequels - a week one of around 500,000 combined across Xbox360 (65%) and PS3 (35%) is looking likely, stronger than the original game but not as big as many of the other Q1 2010 releases.
It is interesting to observe some of the Xbox / Playstation splits for multi-platform titles. While Bioshock, Aliens vs Predator and Alpha Protocol show splits in line with the hardware ratio, titles like Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Dante's Inferno and Final Fantasy XIII show splits strongly in favour of PS3 and for various reasons. For Battlefield, the PS3 version has an exclusive demo (you'll notice the 360 version is now starting to catch up as the launch approaches), Dante's Inferno seems to be picking up interest from the ? of War audience and Final Fantasy has always been associated more with the Playstation brand than Xbox.
The full top 30 is shown below:
Pos Name Console Weeks Change Total
1 Mass Effect 2 X360 1 85,497 475,782
2 ? of War III PS3 10 12,433 327,688
3 MAG: Massive Action Game PS3 1 16,461 245,491
4 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PS3 6 6,603 201,461
5 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 X360 6 14,871 149,166
6 BioShock 2 X360 3 21,909 142,740
7 Dante's Inferno PS3 3 18,769 132,150
8 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction X360 14 9,632 126,100
9 Final Fantasy XIII PS3 7 20,243 123,055
10 Pokémon Heart Gold / Soul Silver Version DS 8 14,425 95,248
11 Dante's Inferno X360 3 9,412 68,265
12 BioShock 2 PS3 3 9,717 59,623
13 Final Fantasy XIII X360 7 7,848 57,588
14 Gran Turismo 5 PS3 N/A 1,927 48,451
15 Heavy Rain PS3 5 7,736 48,258
16 Aliens vs. Predator X360 4 8,886 45,339
17 Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars Wii 1 11,060 42,912
18 Super Mario Galaxy 2 Wii N/A 2,442 40,325
19 Alpha Protocol X360 N/A 844 37,077
20 White Knight Chronicles: International Edition PS3 2 5,017 35,627
21 Aliens vs. Predator PS3 4 5,348 27,754
22 Lost Planet 2 X360 N/A 1,019 25,850
23 Halo: Reach X360 N/A 2,468 25,541
24 Red Dead Redemption X360 14 2,266 23,999
25 Lunar: Silver Star Harmony PSP 6 3,759 21,844
26 SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 PSP 4 1,844 21,291
27 Alpha Protocol PS3 N/A 198 21,096
28 Red Dead Redemption PS3 14 1,897 19,718
29 Star Ocean: The Last Hope International PS3 3 2,822 18,963
30 ModNation Racers PS3 N/A 456 18,309
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