USA Preorders Chart, 4 May 2013 - Slow Week - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 May 2013 / 4,449 Views
Overview
There are no games in the top 40 to be in their final week.
Three games have 200,000 or more pre-orders, the same as last week, and the top five has 100,000 or more pre-orders, the same as last week. One game added 20,000 or more, up from zero last week and two added 10,000 or more, down from tree last week.
Games in Final Week Before Launch
There are no games in the top 40 to be in their final week.
Major Performers in the U.S. – Week Ending May 11
Dead Island: Riptide (X360) sales are expected to drop to around 28,000 units in its third week on sale. The PlayStation 3 version is expected to drop to around 12,000 units.
Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins (3DS) sales are expected to drop to around 30,000 units in its third week on sale.
Soul Sacrifice (PSV) sales are expected to drop to around 12,000 units in its second week on sale.
Deadly Premonition: Directors Cut (PS3) sales are expected to drop to around 7,000 units in its second week on sale.
Overall hardware and software sales are expected to drop slightly week-on-week.
Other Hot Games – In Order of Release
The Last of Us (PS3) added 8,494 pre-orders, up from 6,698 last week, for a total of 265,520. The game has fallen from 54,000 to 50,000 pre-orders ahead of Uncharted 3 during the same number of weeks before release. The game is six weeks away from launch in the USA, June 14, 2013.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) added 18,019 pre-orders, down from 18,361 last week, for a total of 191,402. The game is six weeks away from launch in the USA, June 9, 2013.
Grand Theft Auto V (X360) is the number one most pre-ordered game in the US as it added 3,467 pre-orders, up from 2,991 last week, for a total of 276,358. The PlayStation 3 version added 2,288 up from 2,128 pre-orders for a total of 238,361. The game is 20 weeks away from launch in the USA, September 17, 2013.
Battlefield 4 (X360) added 8,465 pre-orders, down from 9,618 last week, for a total of 115,670. Battlefield 4 (PS3) added 6,814 pre-orders, up from 5,796 last week, for a total of 454,054. The game has a release date in the third quarter 2013.
Notable mentions: Tales of Xillia (PS3) added 21,073 pre-orders for a total of 79,448. Beyond: Two Souls (PS3) added 4,133 pre-orders for a total of 65,585. Shin Megami Tensei IV (3DS) added 7,644 pre-orders for a total of 38,685.
Requests: GRID 2 (PS3) added 498 pre-orders for a total of 4,586. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (WiiU) added 565 pre-orders for a total of 9,873. Game & Wario (WiiU) added 504 pre-orders for a total of 3,528.
If your favorite game isn't in the top 40, leave a comment requesting which game you want to see and the most requested games will be added in next week's article!
The Top 40 can be seen below or click here to go to the USA pre-orders page.
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Request: Resident Evil: Revelations (WiiU, PS3 360). Also wow for Zelda, its just outside the top 40. When it enters it will be the 5th Wii U game on the chart. :-)
No Call of Duty Ghosts in the Top 40? Really? Not even 11k pre-orders? I don't believe it.
Request:Killzone Mercenary
I hope the last of us sells great. They put to much effort into that game for only 1 million people to buy it.
I think it will easily get over 1 million first week and maybe hit 2 million by the 3rd/4th/or5th week. That's a fairly optimistic goal, but I can see it doing it.
requests:
dragons crown (Vita)
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD
Very glad Last of Us has a mass of pre-orders. This yr I seem to be pre-ordering lots of jap games collector editions. Hope Tales of Xillia does the bizness.
Xillia is unstoppable! Go go Xillia :)
Request: Final Fantasy 10/10-2 HD, "X" from Monolith if is's available for preorder.
request: Watch_Dogs PS3 & 360
Tales of Xillia just dominating... to bad we know its overestimated.
