Gears of War 2 debuts to 2.1 million Day 1
According to early reports, Gears of War 2 emerged with massive sales, chalking up an incredible 2,100,000 units on Day 1. It looks to do over 2,500,000 units on Week-1, with only 2 days of sales for the week.
According to early retailer reports, and user polls, Gears of War 2 is shaping up to be one of the biggest Xbox 360 titles to date, putting it in very similar territory to blockbusters 'Halo 3' and 'Grand Theft Auto IV'
Using the aforementioned data, Gears of War 2 looks to have debuted to midnight and Friday sales of 1,400,000 units in North America, and 700,000 units in 'Others' territories. This would represent about two thirds of Halo 3's massive debut, which wound up with 3.8 million units sold it's first week on the market.
However, the great difficulty with projecting and analysing Gears of War 2 data is that it debuted on a Friday - Whereas tradtitional release dates put most games (Halo 3, Grand Theft Auto, ect) on a Tuesday worldwide. The release date was rumored to move to Friday due to the US Election that was on the 4th - a Tuesday.
Because of this, it's very likely that Gears of War 2 will see higher than normal sales on Week 2 - which have a great probability of eclipsing 1,000,000 unit sales on it's second week. This would make it the fastest selling title on the Xbox 360 during week 2.
As you can see, Gears of War 2 is shaping up to be a formidable competitor in the November NPD data, and looks to eclipse Gears of War 1 worldwide sales by the end of the year (which is at 5.2 million units).
As more data comes in, we will be the first to share with it
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