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Americas Preorders Chart, 17 July 2010

by William D'Angelo, posted on 22 July 2010 / 5,571 Views

The only game in the top 50 in its final week before release is Arc Rise Fantasia (Wii). It only reached the 30th spot, with an additional 2,000 pre-orders for a total of 28,000. Expect first week sales in the 75,000 range.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (PC) with only 2 weeks left until release maintained its number one spot with an additional 68,000 pre-orders bringing the total up to 684,000. With only one week left of pre-orders expect total pre-orders to reach 750,000.

Starcraft II

Halo Reach (X360) continues to track below Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (X360), with the gap widening to 100,000. Total pre-orders with 9 weeks until release is 528,000. Expect the gap to continue to slowly widen until Microsoft starts ramping up advertisements.

Halo Reach VS CoDMW2

Gran Turismo 5 (PS3) pre-orders are steadily increasing with another 8,000 pre-orders for a total of 114,000 with 16 weeks until release. Expect pre-orders to start picking up as release date draws closer.

GT5 americas preorders

Beyond Gran Turismo, Madden NFL 11 continues to track higher on the PlayStation 3, 237,000, compared to the Xbox 360, 188,000. Call of Duty: Black Ops adds another 30,000 pre-orders for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions combined with 17 weeks until release. This adds up for a total of 334,000 pre-orders. Medal of Honor adds another 35,000 pre-orders for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version combined, for a total of 336,000, with 13 weeks left until release. Metroid: Other M (Wii) Continues to be the top Wii game, with another 9,000 in pre-orders, for a total of 74,000, with 7 weeks left until release.

The Top 50 can be seen below and the full chart can be seen here

PosNameConsoleWeeksChangeTotal
1 Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty PC 2 68,348 684,766
2 Halo: Reach X360 9 50,884 528,313
3 Madden NFL 11 PS3 4 18,591 237,565
4 Call of Duty: Black Ops X360 17 18,167 212,438
5 Medal of Honor PS3 13 12,620 188,720
6 Madden NFL 11 X360 4 19,822 188,486
7 Medal of Honor X360 13 22,455 147,838
8 Fallout: New Vegas X360 14 13,789 141,451
9 Call of Duty: Black Ops PS3 17 12,422 122,178
10 Gran Turismo 5 PS3 16 8,135 114,525
11 World of Warcraft: Cataclysm PC N/A 3,734 88,919
12 Final Fantasy XIV Online PC 11 38,706 79,937
13 Metroid: Other M Wii 7 9,131 74,799
14 Fallout: New Vegas PS3 14 6,905 71,319
15 Fable III X360 N/A 9,860 67,932
16 Madden NFL 11 Wii 4 4,773 67,681
17 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II X360 15 3,980 48,795
18 Diablo III PC N/A 727 47,982
19 Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep PSP 8 4,205 46,395
20 Dead Rising 2 X360 11 3,668 45,556
21 Fallout: New Vegas PC 14 3,833 44,428
22 Mafia II X360 6 2,915 41,064
23 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood X360 18 5,970 40,081
24 Medal of Honor PC 13 3,201 36,182
25 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II PS3 15 2,958 36,026
26 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier X360 N/A 2,828 35,071
27 Mafia II PS3 6 2,971 32,995
28 7 Wonders II DS 2 31,160 31,160
29 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood PS3 N/A 3,217 29,584
30 Arc Rise Fantasia Wii 1 2,003 28,352
31 The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Wii N/A 2,884 26,908
32 EyePet PS3 N/A 255 24,495
33 Gears of War 3 X360 38 2,141 23,928
34 Dead Rising 2 PS3 11 1,447 23,621
35 Golden Sun: Dark Dawn DS N/A 358 23,276
36 Dead Space 2 X360 28 546 21,539
37 Brink X360 N/A 367 21,528
38 Madden NFL 11 PS2 4 2,364 20,989
39 Disney Epic Mickey Wii N/A 1,456 20,489
40 Max Payne 3 X360 N/A 391 20,424
41 Dead Space 2 PS3 28 1,147 18,822
42 The Last Guardian PS3 N/A 116 18,417
43 Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 PS3 N/A 166 18,252
44 Final Fantasy XIV Online PS3 N/A 3,403 18,007
45 Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 X360 N/A 566 17,532
46 Kinect Sports X360 16 2,709 17,424
47 SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs PS3 N/A 1,761 16,865
48 R.U.S.E. X360 9 284 16,456
49 Madden NFL 11 PSP 4 2,238 16,407
50 Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar DS 2 1,616 15,938

12 Comments

JWS (on 25 July 2010)

Over the 2 consoles and pc fallout is putting up some respectable numbers.


kupomogli (on 23 July 2010)

EyePet is actually ranked 32? Never thought I'd see a Move or Kinect game higher than 10,000 preorders.


routsounmanman (on 23 July 2010)

Go Starcraft 2!


crissindahouse (on 23 July 2010)

@chairman mao: no, 7 games. moh, cod and madden are two times in the chart above 100k.


menx64 (on 23 July 2010)

Nice numbers for metroid... I hope it keeps the same numbers until launch...


FaRmLaNd (on 22 July 2010)

Starcraft 2 is massive! With Blizzard legs it could possibly outsell the original eventually. Which is amazing.


Wagram (on 22 July 2010)

Final Fantasy XIV is doing very well.


Chairman-Mao (on 22 July 2010)

10 games with 100k preorders or more, who said the industry is in trouble?


kain_kusanagi (on 22 July 2010)

The only game on this list I'm going to preorder is Halo Reach, but there are two games NOT on this list I will preorder as well. Majin and Enslaved.


trunkswd (on 22 July 2010)

@Kowenicki I try to keep the articles short and concise. I want to mention the biggest games for each system that are coming out relatively soon. Once Fable 3, like with other games, starts picking up I will add it to the article.


I LOVE GIGGS (on 22 July 2010)

Fallout: New Vegas is doing a lot better than what I expected from it! If it continue at this rate, it can sell more than one million on its first week on X360 alone!


kowenicki (on 22 July 2010)

No mention for fable 3?... higher pre-orders than GT5 this week and still no release date...