USA Preorders Chart, 7 January 2012 - Diablo III, ME3, FFXIII-2 Lead - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 January 2012 / 9,273 Views
Overview
There are no games in the top 30 to be in its final week before launch. The top five games include Diablo III (PC), Mass Effect 3 (X360), Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3), Kinect Star Wars (X360), and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (X360).
The top three games have 200,000 or more pre-orders, up from two last week, and the top eight has 100,000 or more pre-orders, the same as last week. Three games add 20,000 or more, up from two last week and three add 10,000 or more, the same as last week.
Games in final week before launch
There are no games in the top 30 to be in its final week before launch.
Other Hot Games
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3) is at number three, as it adds 43,000 pre-orders, up from 20,000 last week, for a total of 242,000. It is currently one week ahead of Final Fantasy XIII (PS3) and 53,000 away from passing it. The game is four weeks away from launch, January 31, 2012 in the USA.
Mass Effect 3 (X360) is at number two, as it adds 56,000 pre-orders, up from 20,000 last week, for a total of 457,000. Total pre-orders have now passed Mass Effect 2 (X360) and should pass half a million next week. The game is nine weeks away from launch, March 6, 2012 in the USA.
Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) is at number number 14, as it adds 7,000 pre-orders, the same as last week, for a total of 83,000. The game is 13 weeks away from launch, April 2, 2012 in the USA.
Also in the top 10: Diablo III (PC) is at the top of the USA pre-order charts, as it adds 79,000 pre-orders, up from 60,000 last week, for a total of 484,000. The game has no release date yet.
Kinect Star Wars (X360) is at number four, as it adds 4,000 pre-orders, down from 8,000 last week, for a total of 199,000. The game has no release date yet.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (X360) is at number five, as it adds 4,000 pre-orders, the same as last week, for a total of 190,000. The game has been pushed back to May 22 in the USA.
Halo 4 (X360) is at number six, as it adds 5,000 pre-orders, down from 6,000 last week, for a total of 170,000. The game has no release date yet.
Twisted Metal (PS3) is at number seven, as it adds 8,000 pre-orders, up from 7,000 last week, for a total of 123,000. The game is six weeks away from launch, February 14, 2012 in the USA.
Mass Effect 3 (PS3) is at number eight, as it adds 7,000 pre-orders, up from 6,000 last week, for a total of 110,000. The game is nine weeks away from launch, March 6, 2012 in the USA.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (X360) is at number nine, as it adds 5,000 pre-orders, the same as last week, for a total of 98,000. The game is 11 weeks away from launch, March 20, 2012 in the USA.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (PS3) rounds out the top 10, as it adds 4,000 pre-orders, down from 5,000 last week, for a total of 93,000. The game is 11 weeks away from launch, March 20, 2012 in the USA.
Notable mentions outside the top 10: Final Fantasy XIII-2 (X360) adds 10,000 pre-orders for a total of 78,000. UFC Undisputed 3 (X360) adds 9,000 pre-orders for a total of 77,000. SoulCalibur V (PS3) adds 7,000 pre-orders for a total of 73,000. SoulCalibur V (X360) adds 7,000 pre-orders for a total of 68,000.
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The Top 30 can be seen below or click here to go to the USA pre-orders page.
| Pos | Name | Platform | Weeks to Launch | Weekly Change | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diablo III | PC | N/A | 78,572 | 484,339 |
| 2 | Mass Effect 3 | X360 | 9 | 55,958 | 457,374 |
| 3 | Final Fantasy XIII-2 | PS3 | 4 | 43,374 | 242,386 |
| 4 | Kinect Star Wars | X360 | N/A | 3,878 | 199,234 |
| 5 | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier | X360 | N/A | 4,122 | 190,458 |
| 6 | Halo 4 | X360 | N/A | 5,046 | 170,352 |
| 7 | Twisted Metal | PS3 | 6 | 8,284 | 112,526 |
| 8 | Mass Effect 3 | PS3 | 9 | 7,006 | 110,059 |
| 9 | Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City | X360 | 11 | 5,342 | 98,379 |
| 10 | Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City | PS3 | 11 | 3,594 | 93,381 |
| 11 | Luigi's Mansion 2 | 3DS | N/A | 3,168 | 90,820 |
| 12 | BioShock Infinite | X360 | N/A | 1,420 | 87,520 |
| 13 | Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning | X360 | 5 | 5,142 | 87,082 |
| 14 | Xenoblade Chronicles | Wii | 13 | 6,691 | 83,384 |
| 15 | Final Fantasy XIII-2 | X360 | 4 | 9,572 | 78,482 |
| 16 | UFC Undisputed 3 | X360 | 6 | 9,168 | 76,574 |
| 17 | SoulCalibur V | PS3 | 4 | 6,854 | 73,005 |
| 18 | Mass Effect 3 | PC | 9 | 3,102 | 72,959 |
| 19 | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier | PS3 | N/A | 1,439 | 72,727 |
| 20 | Mario Party 9 | Wii | 10 | 2,066 | 70,496 |
| 21 | Max Payne 3 | X360 | N/A | 2,715 | 69,704 |
| 22 | Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning | PS3 | 5 | 4,453 | 68,580 |
| 23 | SoulCalibur V | X360 | 4 | 6,913 | 67,879 |
| 24 | UFC Undisputed 3 | PS3 | 6 | 5,214 | 67,411 |
| 25 | Paper Mario | 3DS | N/A | 1,484 | 66,728 |
| 26 | Final Fantasy XIV Online | PS3 | N/A | 772 | 66,259 |
| 27 | Max Payne 3 | PS3 | N/A | 3,172 | 63,193 |
| 28 | Resident Evil: Revelations | 3DS | 5 | 4,488 | 62,294 |
| 29 | Rugby World Cup 2011 | X360 | N/A | 1,886 | 59,609 |
| 30 | Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance | PS3 | N/A | 1,103 | 57,884 |
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ME3 should release to pretty good numbers!
ryuzaki57, Bioware recently released a whole bunch of Collectors Edition items so that might have something to do with it.
I just noticed ME3 on PS3 is very similar to ME2 pre-orders for 360. I wonder if it'll keep tracking that way for the remaining 9 weeks.
I'm fairly certain Xenoblade is overtracked, sadly. I hope it isn't, but I just don't see it having so many pre-orders at this time. Heck, at this rate, its first week in NA could be double the first week it saw in the rest of the world combined!
It deserves the success. Great game.
Slow week for pre-ordes. Around 10'000 more till Luigi's Mansion 2 gets to 100'000 pre-orders! Very surprising! :-D
Hopefully, the original Luigi's Mansion was: Awesome!
If the demo is a success FFXIII-2 could pass FFXIII preorders as soon as next week (^o^)/ Insane week for both ME3 and FFXIII-2, has anything happened!!?
Thats pretty good for FFXIII-2 it could have a week 1 over 500,000 in US.
Mass Effect 3 is pretty much the most anticipated game of 2012.Expecting 1mil pre-orders.
Seems my comment didn't appear. Basically if you go look at the pre-order totals for ff13 and ME2, and any other game being compared to, it seems that what is listed as the total here is in fact 2 weeks before launch, not the last week. So for example FF13-2 is actually 97k away from passing FF13. Explanation or fix it please.
People preorder Mario Party 9? Why?
XIII-2 could have bigger opening than XIII but I think it will die rather quickly.
Im sure FFXIII-2 could sell more than 1m first week in NA
I put a plus one on your comment, cause I agree that Europe won't be too kind to it. :)
