Gears of War 3 Claims The Biggest Launch Of 2011
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Gears of War 3 Sells More Than 3m Copies in First Week
Seb Parker, 22 hours ago, 7,910 views
Microsoft and Epic have reason to celebrate. The highly anticipated end to the Gears trilogy - Gears of War 3 - has eclipsed 3 million units first week. This covers a period of 5 days in both Americas and EMEAA. This both marks 50% growth over Gears of War 2 and means that it outsold the first weeks of both previous iterations combined.
Gears of War 3 also claims the biggest launch of 2011 so far, surpassing Pokemon Black /White's western debut. It also claims the 6th biggest X360 launch week all-time, worldwide, just behind Grand Theft Auto IV.
Gears of War 3 saw decent growth in both Americas and EMEAA, selling 2.15M units in Americas (up 850,000, 65%) and 850,000 in EMEAA (up 260,000, 31%). The franchise typically sees around 6-6.5 million units lifetime, but Gears 3 is set to buck the trend and should surpass 8 million units.
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/88023/gears-of-war-3-sells-more-than-3m-copies-in-first-week/
No flopping here.
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Lol the dreamcast flopped 2 but it had the sickest games in it's era.
You're gettin paid by MS ain't ya? -
every exclusive shooter ps3 has > Gears and i like gears...Mcdonalds has over a billion served but their burgers suck.. so what you sayin.
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playmaker88 wrote: »every exclusive shooter ps3 has > Gears and i like gears...Mcdonalds has over a billion served but their burgers suck.. so what you sayin.
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Pound for pound, as far as the whole package, Gears series > every PS3 exclusive series, period. I got and love both systems but I swear that only ? that dont have 360s say otherwise.
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niigga whaaaaaaaaaaaaattt hahahahahahah
I aint lying. Im not even hating .. Gears is a good series i played the first two extensively but they are nto better than rfom series nor killzone in any facet
The movement in multi player is wack as ? .. horde mode was the ? .. but its like they are running on a track -
playmaker88 wrote: »every exclusive shooter ps3 has > Gears and i like gears...Mcdonalds has over a billion served but their burgers suck.. so what you sayin.
mcdonalds burgers suck now ?
what is the world coming to... -
playmaker88 wrote: »I aint lying. Im not even hating .. Gears is a good series i played the first two extensively but they are nto better than rfom series nor killzone in any facet
The movement in multi player is wack as ? .
So basically you just suck at Gears. -
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One Spliff wrote: »mcdonalds burgers suck now ?
what is the world coming to...
Burger King #2 double whopper > -
So basically you just suck at Gears.
Not at all i was a beast iwththe sniper and that perfect reload ? -
playmaker88 wrote: »they always have its a larger white castle burger.. not the first choice
Burger King #2 double whopper >
we dont have white castle out here.
havent had a double whooper in like 10 years...
mcdonalds is kinda overrated now dat u mention it... -
playmaker88 wrote: »every exclusive shooter ps3 has > Gears and i like gears...Mcdonalds has over a billion served but their burgers suck.. so what you sayin.
You did not just say this with a straight face I hope. Gears 3 > every other shooter out right now, and once battlefield 3 and MW3 come out later on this year we can see which will be better. This ? said Killzone and Resistance are better than Gears ROFL. -
I so serious.. im not comin with that geek like focus.. i have played the gears series. extensively.. not just tried it... play these series and come back and holla.. dont just dabble
Focus is all about the numbers.. that all he cares about.. hes like 90's baby on hiphop.. and new ? nba fan.. STATS ON STATS ON STATS.. -
The co-op is what makes gears and the multiplayer...i guess you could say the story as well
i played 1 and 2 religiously its hands down my favorite 360 game. With that being said killzone 2 was a better game than gears 1 or 2 if u play solo. The multiplayer was really a matter of preference and the co-op hands down goes to gears
As far as resistance i preferred the multiplayer in that over gears but i do know gears had the better multiplayer.
End of the day it boils down to preference. Today i say killzone 2 was better but tomorrow i could say gears....thats why i said ? it and copped both. -
Resistance 2 multi was wack.. it went haloish ill sy that.. r3 multi is back where it should be .. wish it had more r1 elements.. but the story in both of these games was bananas
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Honestly, Killzone 2 is like the most overrated game this gen. It's not a bad game at all, but to me, it's just not as great as people make it out to be. I'll still take KZ3 MP over KZ2 any day.
Gears 2 MP was straight ? tho; ? was horrible. Gears 3 is the best shooter out (as of now) even tho that's not saying much considering nothing really dropped this year aside from Resistance 3, which is also a good game even tho I only played the MP beta.
Gears 3 > Gears 2 < Gears 1, but that sawed off is annoying as ? . -
is'nt gears a 3rd person shooter ?
whys it being compared to 1st person shooters ? -
3 million, well ? let me drop everything and go buy one now lol
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One Spliff wrote: »is'nt gears a 3rd person shooter ?
whys it being compared to 1st person shooters ?
? .............it's a fanboy thread, why are you using logic? -
One Spliff wrote: »is'nt gears a 3rd person shooter ?
whys it being compared to 1st person shooters ?
Its a shooter never made that distinction. never said it was wack either -
I love when arcade ? and Microsoft sambos stan a game like their long lost father helped design it. Just makes me wanna buy it even less.
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funkdocdamc wrote: »? .............it's a fanboy thread, why are you using logic?
lol...
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Killzone 3 and Resistance 3 haven't sold 3 million life to date, worldwide, combined.
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Focus stays winnin in the arcade