America's Preorders Chart, 23 October 2010 - Fable III - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 25 October 2010 / 8,940 Views
Overview – Four games are in their final week before release as the big holiday releases will be out this week or within the next five to six weeks. Fable III (X360) is this week’s big release as the game adds over 200,000 pre-orders. Eleven games have over 100,000 pre-orders and 23 have over 50,000.
Games in final week before release – Four games are in their final week before release with two of them in the top 10.
Fable III (X360) is the top game in its final week before release. The game received 212,000 pre-orders this week more than any other game. The game reaches a final total of 783,000, as it is currently the second most pre-ordered game on the chart. Expect first week sales in America to be in the 1 million to 1.25 million range and worldwide to be in the 1.5 to 1.8 million range.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 adds a combined 30,000 pre-orders this week for a final total of 292,000. Expect first week combined sales inAmerica to be in the 350,000 to 450,000 range.
Rock Band 3 for the X360 and PS3 adds 29,000 pre-orders in its final week for a total of 149,000. Expect combined first week sales in America to be the 200,000 to 250,000 range.
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 for the X360 and PS3 the fourth and final game in its final week before release adds another 26,000 pre-orders for a grand total of 124,000. Expect first week sales in America to be in the 150,000 to 200,000 range.
Other Hot Games – In order of release.
Call of Duty: Black Ops pre-orders for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions combined have passed the 2 million mark. However having said that the gap between it and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 at the same number of weeks before release has shrunk considerably. The gap is now down to 84,000 from 266,000 the previous week.
Disney Epic Mickey (Wii) pre-orders are rising as it adds 13,000 this week for a total of 87,000. With six weeks left until release the game is on track to passing the 150,000 mark.
Gran Turismo 5 (PS3) pre-orders have stalled after the game was delayed to an unknown date later this year. The game only added 1,000 pre-order this week for a total of 227,000.
Also in the top 10: World of WarCraft: Cataclysm for the PC adds 20,000 pre-orders as it hits 401,000 pre-orders to date, with seven weeks until release. The game is on track to surpass 500,000 pre-orders in the next four to five weeks.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood for the X360 and PS3 adds 32,000 combined pre-orders for a total of 378,000. The game has a 50:50 chance of passing 500,000 pre-orders, as it is currently four weeks from its launch.
Kinect Adventures! pre-orders slow to 4,000 this week, for a total of 180,000. The game is currently two weeks from release and it will be difficult for it to pass 200,000 pre-orders by release.
Notable mentions outside the top 10: Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii) adds 14,000 pre-orders this week for a total of 92,000. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit for the PS3 and X360 adds a combined 19,000 pre-orders for a total of 137,000. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (PSP) adds 9,000 pre-orders for a total of 55,000.
The Top 30 can be seen below or click here to go to the pre-orders page.
| Pos | Name | Console | Weeks | Change | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call of Duty: Black Ops | X360 | 3 | 183,371 | 1,344,196 |
| 2 | Fable III | X360 | 1 | 212,046 | 783,331 |
| 3 | Call of Duty: Black Ops | PS3 | 3 | 41,482 | 658,731 |
| 4 | World of Warcraft: Cataclysm | PC | 7 | 20,237 | 400,973 |
| 5 | Gran Turismo 5 | PS3 | N/A | 1,832 | 227,341 |
| 6 | Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood | X360 | 4 | 27,554 | 194,330 |
| 7 | Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood | PS3 | 4 | 14,436 | 183,676 |
| 8 | Kinect Adventures! | X360 | 2 | 3,641 | 180,455 |
| 9 | Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II | X360 | 1 | 23,474 | 166,355 |
| 10 | Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II | PS3 | 1 | 16,578 | 126,070 |
| 11 | LittleBigPlanet 2 | PS3 | 13 | 3,426 | 101,314 |
| 12 | Rock Band 3 | X360 | 1 | 21,208 | 99,183 |
| 13 | Donkey Kong Country Returns | Wii | 5 | 14,285 | 92,206 |
| 14 | Disney Epic Mickey | Wii | 6 | 12,942 | 87,308 |
| 15 | Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit | PS3 | 4 | 8,876 | 69,874 |
| 16 | Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit | X360 | 4 | 10,474 | 67,292 |
| 17 | WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 | X360 | 1 | 16,075 | 65,654 |
| 18 | Gears of War 3 | X360 | N/A | 3,514 | 62,410 |
| 19 | WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 | PS3 | 1 | 10,123 | 58,532 |
| 20 | Diablo III | PC | N/A | 2,636 | 57,365 |
| 21 | God of War: Ghost of Sparta | PSP | 2 | 9,472 | 55,359 |
| 22 | Rock Band 3 | PS3 | 1 | 8,491 | 55,076 |
| 23 | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier | X360 | N/A | 2,394 | 53,898 |
| 24 | GoldenEye 007 | Wii | 2 | 9,660 | 49,994 |
| 25 | Pokémon Black / White Version | DS | N/A | 7,971 | 49,472 |
| 26 | Call of Duty: Black Ops | Wii | 3 | 9,602 | 49,036 |
| 27 | Kinect Sports | X360 | 2 | 5,082 | 48,858 |
| 28 | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword | Wii | N/A | 3,241 | 48,806 |
| 29 | Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! | DS | 4 | 7,055 | 42,054 |
| 30 | Call of Duty: Black Ops | PC | 3 | 2,825 | 41,487 |
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@Monges79 no it not, but the ps3 is actually doing better compare 2 last year
Anyone notice the PS3's Black Ops sales are half of the 360's? Are the 360's preorders for Black Ops beating Modern Warfare 2's from last year?
@ Dr.Feelgood.
The difference being that Spots Champs/Move didn't see a significant downshift in pre-orders just prior to release. For sure Kinect will launch much higher than Move in Americas, but unless they screwed up and left a zero off the Kinect pre-orders for the week it would seem that the initial shipment of Kinect has been fully pre-ordered, or close to it. Unless some retailers are holding back a lot of Kinect units for walk-in sales (how likely is that, and how many would they hold back from pre-order availability) it would seem that first week sales will more or less equal pre-orders.
Looks to me like both Move and Kinect might have supply issues this Christmas, especially Kinect in Americas.
Given it seems Kinect is a sell out I think global Kinect install base FW will = Move install base LTD.
@dr.feelgood oh lol, i saw the threads for how well the move is doing, but didnt watch it before it launched, thanks
@ cory.ok
The PS move's champion sports, or whatever it was bundled with, had less preorders than that and it still sold pretty well so I think its doing good at 200k
Gears of War 3 isn't coming out until fall next year and it's doing awesome, it's already 18th in the list. Go Gears!
Wow, so happy to see COD:BO Wii in there and with three weeks to go to! Both WAW and MWR did 60k worldwide in their first week and this should break that. I really hope Treyarch give us some info before hand and this total rises!
does kinect adventures only having less than 200,000 pre prders mean kinect only has the same?
seems pretty low...i thought it would be doing better
@primogen18
Word.
BeLikeClutch: Like always there will be some MS-websites/magazines which will drive up the average. Sony and Nintendo do the same, too bad Metacritic counts these as well. ;)
Oh, and Calmador, you're pretty pathetic. You seem to be in denial that people like different games on different systems, try growing up a little and stop acting like a 5 year old in the playground.
Good to see Goldeneye and COD:BO for Wii make it in there.
Both World at War AND Modern Warfare Reflex never made it into the chart for pre-orders for Wii. I happen to dig up some old charts while searching for other stats and came across the pre-order charts leading up to both games. It's nice to see the COD brand grow on Wii.
Cant wait for Black Ops Wii.
Arrange what ? Microsoft has no fault of Bad Reviewers like Sony has no fault of people rating Heavy Rain at 4/10... Some guys are stupid they post reviews for hits like Destructoid or Eurogamer what can Ms or Sony do about that ?? NOTHING. The game will sell milions so whatever Triple A confirmed plus the game is awesome 9.5 for me. Not finished yet.
I think Molyneux just happened to make his very humble comments at a time where he knew people would purchase his game and make it "Great", I think he's evil, haha
@ Silver tiger: Maybe because it is coming out next week and/or people want to see if Molyneux made his first GREAT game and/or people want to see if Molyneux lied again and/or the x360 isn't getting another big exclusive game this year?
Ads for Goldeneye have already started on sunday evening,at Fox.
Yeah,finally in top30,and it could have a very good bump the next week.
Epic could be very big.
Fable III preorders must be jumping because of the stellar reviews. Otherwise I can't explain the huge jump in preorders.
Why does this article say GT5 only added 1000 preorders this week while the list says +1800? It's closer to 2000 then it is to 1000.
@ black ops pc aint buying this years version XD wi actaully out selling it lol
Dk is showing good numbers, hopefully those numbers will keep increasing as the release date gets closer... Epic mickey could be very big as well... Golden Eye, ads should begin soon, otherwise game is not going to do very well IMO...
@_@ at COD wii, How come 9000 preorders when we havent even see a single screenshot of the game???
LMAO @ BO Wii > BO PC.
Also, I'm surprised at GT5 pre-orders. I thought they would be going in the negatives this week.
Holy crap Fable!
Fable III is already a given for me. However, I am torn between Epic Mickey and DKC:R as I am saving up for a 55" LED 3DTV and can't splurge to get both. Any suggestions as I really want both but could only chose one. (I don't regret Epic Yarn as I love that game)
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I knew this would happen to GT5
I knew this would happen to GT5
So you think Fable 3 is barely gonna get a 1 million FW launch?
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