Gears of War Franchise Has Sold Over 41 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 November 2022 / 7,274 Views
Update:
It has since been pointed out, The Coalition previously revealed the Gears of War franchise has sold over 41 million units worldwide as of August 2019.
"The Coalition’s recent release includes 2019’s Gears 5, winner of multiple industry awards, and praise for its leadership in the gaming accessibility space," reads the About Us page on the The Coalition website. "As of August 2019, total global sales for the Gears franchise surpassed 41 million copies sold."
Original article:
Netflix in its announcement for the Gears of War live action feature film and adult animated series revealed the series how sold over 40 million units.
"With over 40 million copies sold, Gears of War is one of gaming’s richest and most acclaimed sagas," reads the announcement post from Netflix.
"A society divided and on the brink of collapse faces total extinction by the Locust, a monstrous threat from below. Delta Squad, a ragtag fireteam led by disgraced sergeant Marcus Fenix, is now charged with leading humanity’s last stand. The series has been critically acclaimed for redefining the tactical third-person and co-operative shooter genre and has one of gaming’s most passionate fanbases."
The first entry in the Gears of War franchise released 16 years ago today on November 7, 2006 for the Xbox 360. The last mainline entry was Gears 5 released on September 10, 2019 for the Xbox One and PC, and for the Xbox Series X|S on November 10, 2020.
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I actually looked this up because I was curious what the last reported number was but it was announced it sold over 41m back in August 2019 before Gears 5 released
"The Coalition’s recent release includes 2019’s Gears 5, winner of multiple industry awards, and praise for its leadership in the gaming accessibility space. As of August 2019, total global sales for the Gears franchise surpassed 41 million copies sold."
https://www.thecoalitionstudio.com/about-us/
Netflix just using old numbers I guess
Good numbers, what is the breakdown?
AddPhil Spencer: Gears 5 Sold Better Than Gears 4 - Sales
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by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 April 2020 / 8,486 Views
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer speaking with Eurogamer revealed Gears 5 sold better than Gears of War 4. He said that having the game on Game Pass is about giving gamers a choice on how they want to buy and play the game.
"Gears 5 sold well for us," said Spencer. "It sold better than Gears 4. And we feel good about it. If people want to make the choice of buying Gears, that's an option we want to give them. I'm not trying to funnel everybody who wants to play Gears into the subscription. It's about giving gamers choice. Certain players will make the decision as part of Game Pass that they'll either want to start to subscribe, or they're already a subscriber and they stay subscribed.
"Right now the easiest metric to talk to Rod or anybody about the success is, how many players did we find with this game? And let the gamers choose how they actually want to get the entitlement for the game. It is an evolution, there's no doubt.
your reply...
Not much of a breakdown, but well as good as we can get.
VGC have GoW 1 at 6.1M, GoW2 at 6.8, GoW3 at 6.2, GoW:UE at 3.6M, GoW:J at 1.6 and some minor games totalling 0.4M... GoW4 is 3.4M but likely not thrustworthy...
That would be 24.7 (or let's round to 25M) until GoW4 kicked in... so it would be 16M to get to 41M so even if we put half to 4 and half to 5 it would give 8M each, which is more than on X360.
So not sure how accurate would be VGC numbers for the older titles, but seems like an average of 7M for the 5 main titles is a reasonable approach, would you agree?
Big gears fan but I want to know the sales numbers for gears 5 vs Gearsofwar4
why would you get a down vote here? this is a fair question
What are those numbers going to tell you though? With a whole lot of distribution occurring through Gamepass, sales numbers have become much less relevant for games that launch on Gamepass.
Just which sold better than the other
