USA Preorders Chart, 4 February 2012 - Kingdoms of Amalur - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 February 2012 / 12,129 Views

Overview

There are three games in the top 30 to be in its final week before launch, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Resident Evil: Revelations (3DS), and The Darkness II (X360). The top five games include Mass Effect 3 (X360), Diablo III (PC), Kinect Star Wars (X360), Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (X360), and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (X360).

The top four games have 200,000 or more pre-orders, down from five last week, and the top 13 has 100,000 or more pre-orders, down from 14 last week. Two games add 20,000 or more, down from four last week and five add 10,000 or more, down from eight last week.

Games in final week before launch

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (X360) is this week’s top game in its final week before launch. The game reached number five, as it added 38,000 pre-orders, for a grand total of 188,000. Expect first week sales in the USA to be in the 225,000 to 300,000 unit range. The PlayStation version is at number 11, as it adds 14,000 pre-orders for a final total of 113,000. Expect first week sales in the USA to be in the 125,000 to 175,000 unit range.

Resident Evil: Revelations (3DS) is at number 17 in its final week, as it adds 9,000 pre-orders, for a final total of 88,000. Expect first week sales in the USA to be in the 100,000 to 150,000 unit range.

The Darkness II (X360) is at number 28 in its final week, as it adds 5,000 pre-orders, for a total of 65,000. Expect first week sales in the USA to be in the 75,000 to 110,000 unit range.

Other Hot Games

Mass Effect 3 (X360) is at the top of the USA pre-order charts, as it adds 54,000 pre-orders, up from 43,000 last week, for a total of 695,000. The game is on track to pass one million pre-orders by launch. The game is five weeks away from launch, March 6, 2012 in the USA.

Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City Pre-orders

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (X360) is up two spots to number nine, as it adds 7,000 pre-orders, the same as last week, for a total of a 125,000. The PlayStation 3 version is up two spots to number ten, as it adds 7,000 pre-orders, the same as last week, for a total of 117,000. The game is seven weeks away from launch, March 20 in the USA.

Xenoblade Chronicles Pre-orders

Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) is up one spot to number 13, as it adds 4,000 pre-orders, the same as last week, for a total of 107,000. The game is nine weeks away from launch, April 2, 2012 in the USA.

Also in the top 10: Diablo III (PC) is at number two, as it adds 17,000 pre-orders, down from 36,000 last week, for a total of 612,000. The game has no release date yet.

Kinect Star Wars (X360) is up one spot to number three, as it adds 2,000 pre-orders, the same as last week, for a total of 209,000. The game has no release date yet.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (X360) is up one spot to number four, as it adds 3,000 pre-orders, down from 4,000 last week, for a total of 207,000. The game has been pushed back to May 22 in the USA.

Halo 4 (X360) is at number six, as it adds 2,000 pre-orders, the same as last week, for a total of 180,000. The game has no release date yet.

Twisted Metal (PS3) is up one spot to number seven, as it adds 13,000 pre-orders, up from 12,000 last week, for a total of 155,000. The game is two weeks away from launch, February 14, 2012 in the USA.

Mass Effect 3 (PS3) is up one spot to number eight, as it adds 8,000 pre-orders, the same as last week, for a total of 146,000. The game is five weeks away from launch, March 6, 2012 in the USA.

Notable mentions outside the top 10: UFC Undisputed 3 (X360) adds 9,000 pre-orders for a total of 112,000. UFC Undisputed 3 (PS3) adds 9,000 pre-orders for a total of 98,000. SSX (PS3) adds 5,000 pre-orders, for a total of 69,000. SSX (X360) adds 5,000 pre-orders, for a total of 61,000.

Requests have been put on hold for now because the VGC Pro data is still being worked on.

The Top 30 can be seen below or click here to go to the USA pre-orders page.

Pos	Name	Platform	Weeks	Change	Total
1	Mass Effect 3	X360	5	54,106	695,164
2	Diablo III	PC	N/A	16,578	611,692
3	Kinect Star Wars	X360	N/A	1,658	209,137
4	Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier	X360	5	3,156	207,246
5	Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning	X360	1	37,695	187,929
6	Halo 4	X360	N/A	1,999	179,704
7	Twisted Metal	PS3	2	13,178	155,214
8	Mass Effect 3	PS3	5	7,923	145,571
9	Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City	X360	7	6,666	125,186
10	Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City	PS3	7	7,181	116,754
11	Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning	PS3	1	14,349	113,000
12	UFC Undisputed 3	X360	2	8,849	111,934
13	Xenoblade Chronicles	Wii	9	3,549	106,567
14	UFC Undisputed 3	PS3	2	8,623	98,334
15	Luigi's Mansion 2	3DS	N/A	1,296	96,772
16	BioShock Infinite	X360	N/A	1,328	92,527
17	Resident Evil: Revelations	3DS	1	9,074	88,229
18	Max Payne 3	X360	15	2,231	80,374
19	Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier	PS3	5	985	77,516
20	Mario Party 9	Wii	6	1,469	75,640
21	Mass Effect 3	PC	5	728	75,373
22	Max Payne 3	PS3	15	1,447	70,898
23	Paper Mario	3DS	N/A	699	70,133
24	SSX	PS3	2	4,502	69,473
25	Final Fantasy XIV Online	PS3	N/A	366	68,025
26	Street Fighter X Tekken	PS3	5	3,902	67,336
27	Rugby World Cup 2011	X360	N/A	1,006	66,526
28	The Darkness II	X360	1	5,466	65,234
29	SSX	X360	2	5,157	61,276
30	Animal Crossing	3DS	N/A	780	60,756

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18 Comments

z101 (on 06 February 2012)

Love the Xenoblade numbers. One of the best JRPGs gets high sales, thats a good news!

Resident Evil: Revelations numbers seems it bit low. Especially when you look at the good sales in Europe and Japan. On the other hand: Handheld games are often not preorder monsters but sell well after launch.

jamesmarkus87 (on 06 February 2012)

I hope Mass Effect 3 will have good legs. Mass Effect 2's sales basically died after the first week, despite all the critical acclaim and game of the year awards it had received.

SecondWar jamesmarkus87 (on 06 February 2012)

They did collapse but eventually began selling steadily at a few thousand a week, and it did eventually out sell ME1. Likely ME3 will experience something similar, as everyone who got hooked by the first 2 games buys it immediately.

Millenium (on 06 February 2012)

Mass Effect 3 exceeding my expectations.

And Diablo 3... well if it's a Blizzard game, it's on top of the chartz right.

binary solo (on 07 February 2012)

@jamesmarkus87 ME2 has shown, relatively, good legs for PS3. Started with a limp 90K and almost within a year has sold 10x that FW number. Definitely done well over a million with sales off PSN added to disc sales. Sold 46K at retail in 2012, which is pretty good outselling 360 version for 2012 (and 2011) :-P. I hope ME3 on PS3 will get to at least 1.5 million in its first year. Hopefully that will reflect the amount of ME2 sales off PSN. I do wish EA / Bioware would publish its PSN sales of ME2.

Metrium (on 06 February 2012)

Where is Kid Icarus Uprising?! Dont ppl know that by preordering it you get a code to download the first Kid Icarus game for free?! I hope this game wont fail :S

oni-link (on 08 February 2012)

here's hoping Xenoblade ends with at least 150K pre-orders as things seems like it's slowing down a bit. RE:R will be okay and probably sell at least 150K-200K during launch week.

Zim (on 07 February 2012)

Really disappointing numbers for The Darkness II. The original was very well received and an excellent game (Mp was a mess though). Game has a great demo out too.

Michael-5 (on 06 February 2012)

Didn't Ghost Recon: FS get delayed until May? Hope XenoBlades gets more pre-orders, but either way, it's looking to sell the most units in Americas.

hajime234 (on 06 February 2012)

As expected, Mass Effect 3 preorders performing better than ME2 hmm, the combined versions at less than 200k to top 1 million with about a month to go yet. It'll be interesting how much more it will do until launch.

Cheddarchet (on 07 February 2012)

Really glad to see Xenoblade doing so well. Wish I could pre-order it, too. :(

miqdadi (on 07 February 2012)

Mass Effect 3, is just going to boom first week, but will it have good legs?, I am surprised by Darkness II numbers, I thought the first game was good, Xenogears is next in line for me after FF XIII-2