Americas Preorders Chart, 13th Mar 2010 - News

by VGChartz Staff , posted on 15 March 2010 / 14,588 Views

God of War III pre-orders hit 485,000 units this week, significantly more than recent PS3 hits like Uncharted 2, Heavy Rain and Final Fantasy XIII. The biggest individual format release so far this year in the Americas was the 725,000 opening for Mass Effect 2 following a 475,000 unit final pre-order tally. As we first projected a couple of months back, God of War III looks like setting a very similar week one figure - anything from 650,000 to 750,000 is possible in the Americas next week with a good chance at being the biggest week one of the year so far. With recent reports of 225,000 retailer pre-orders in Canada alone, it looks like the initial Americas shipment could be as high as two million units.

Unfortunately for God of War III, Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver also releases next week. With a much slower pre-order buildup, final pre-orders have now hit more than 450,000 units with over a quarter of those from the last seven days alone. It is likely that Pokemon will outsell God of War III next week - a week one total of over 800,000 is likely given the fact that a smaller percentage of buyers are likely to pre-order the title than something like God of War.

The biggest suprise this week is Zhu Zhu Pets. A title which has really come out of nowhere for most gamers, pre-orders have now passed 55,000 units with over 60% of that from the last week alone. A week one of over 100,000 units is looking likely at this pace, quite a rare feat for a 3rd party DS game and given the long-term sales that DS titles often see it wouldn't be a suprise to see this hit a million units sometime this year.

The full top 30 can be seen below:

Pos	Name	Console	Weeks	Change	Total
1	God of War III	PS3	1	61,495	486,992
2	Pokémon Heart Gold / Soul Silver Version	DS	1	115,901	455,297
3	Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction	X360	5	10,902	180,688
4	Madden NFL 11	PS3	N/A	6,758	63,429
5	Super Mario Galaxy 2	Wii	11	4,668	59,250
6	Gran Turismo 5	PS3	N/A	1,447	58,167
7	Zhu Zhu Pets	DS	2	33,548	55,481
8	Red Dead Redemption	X360	10	3,997	46,937
9	Halo: Reach	X360	N/A	3,430	46,818
10	Madden NFL 11	X360	N/A	3,837	45,276
11	Alpha Protocol	X360	12	948	42,428
12	Red Dead Redemption	PS3	10	3,104	41,102
13	Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening	X360	1	6,444	40,328
14	Monster Hunter Tri	Wii	6	8,715	37,413
15	Lost Planet 2	X360	10	1,344	33,358
16	Super Street Fighter IV	PS3	7	1,850	30,291
17	Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening	PS3	1	4,015	28,536
18	Red Steel 2	Wii	2	2,237	28,522
19	Just Cause 2	X360	2	6,281	28,371
20	Alan Wake	X360	10	2,347	26,230
21	Alpha Protocol	PS3	12	639	25,208
22	METRO 2033	X360	1	7,060	25,086
23	Resonance of Fate	PS3	1	2,996	23,873
24	ModNation Racers	PS3	N/A	493	21,952
25	Madden NFL 11	Wii	N/A	2,011	21,652
26	Dead Rising 2	X360	25	391	20,023
27	Fallout: New Vegas	X360	N/A	855	19,556
28	Super Street Fighter IV	X360	7	1,493	19,202
29	Crackdown 2	X360	N/A	1,109	18,785
30	Just Cause 2	PS3	2	4,204	18,780

Pos	Name	Console	Weeks to Launch	Weekly Change	Total
1	God of War III	PS3	1	61,495	486,992
2	Pokémon Heart Gold / Soul Silver Version	DS	1	115,901	455,297
3	Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction	X360	5	10,902	180,688
4	Madden NFL 11	PS3	N/A	6,758	63,429
5	Super Mario Galaxy 2	Wii	11	4,668	59,250
6	Gran Turismo 5	PS3	N/A	1,447	58,167
7	Zhu Zhu Pets	DS	2	33,548	55,481
8	Red Dead Redemption	X360	10	3,997	46,937
9	Halo: Reach	X360	N/A	3,430	46,818
10	Madden NFL 11	X360	N/A	3,837	45,276
11	Alpha Protocol	X360	12	948	42,428
12	Red Dead Redemption	PS3	10	3,104	41,102
13	Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening	X360	1	6,444	40,328
14	Monster Hunter Tri	Wii	6	8,715	37,413
15	Lost Planet 2	X360	10	1,344	33,358
16	Super Street Fighter IV	PS3	7	1,850	30,291
17	Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening	PS3	1	4,015	28,536
18	Red Steel 2	Wii	2	2,237	28,522
19	Just Cause 2	X360	2	6,281	28,371
20	Alan Wake	X360	10	2,347	26,230
21	Alpha Protocol	PS3	12	639	25,208
22	METRO 2033	X360	1	7,060	25,086
23	Resonance of Fate	PS3	1	2,996	23,873
24	ModNation Racers	PS3	N/A	493	21,952
25	Madden NFL 11	Wii	N/A	2,011	21,652
26	Dead Rising 2	X360	25	391	20,023
27	Fallout: New Vegas	X360	N/A	855	19,556
28	Super Street Fighter IV	X360	7	1,493	19,202
29	Crackdown 2	X360	N/A	1,109	18,785
30	Just Cause 2	PS3	2	4,204	18,780

80 Comments

buaskoor (on 18 March 2010)

very strong game for PS3 it god of war 3

and I like sound for this game

it is very strong sound when I play

I like it :-)

DEATH775 (on 17 March 2010)

i'M GETTING THE gOW ULTIMATE EDITION

Baalzamon (on 17 March 2010)

@Makasha: amen...I have had my fair share of time playing both ps3 and wii...ps3 is just more fun to me, yet apparently the Wii is twice as good because it sold twice as much, haha...

Makaha (on 17 March 2010)

@Cueil

Do you realize NSMB Wii outsold Halo 3 in just a matter of weeks?

Don't use sales figures to measure the quality of a game.

MK Wii sold almost twice as many copies as Halo 3!!

Nintendogs sold 23 million!!

Are you saying MK Wii and Nintendogs are twice as good as Halo 3 ??

I hate when people equate sales with a games quality.

Madworld did terrible sales on the Wii, but does that mean that it's a bad game??

The upcoming game line up from MS just doesn't interest me....outside of Fable 3

At least Sony takes chances on new and interesting IPs like LittleBigPlanet, Heavy Rain and the upcoming Modnation Racers.

I don't have a PS3, I swap my 360 with my friends PS3, we've been doing that since PS2/Xbox, but I can honestly say, the PS3 line up is more interesting than the 360 line up.

And by the way, the two best games to me on the PS3 is Valkyria Chronicles and Demon's Souls, but they didn't sell very well....
but that doesn't mean they're not good games

novasonic (on 17 March 2010)

Aw no Fragile Dreams.

Baalzamon (on 16 March 2010)

compare halo 3 to gran turismo all you want...but gran turismo fans have been waiting 2 1/2 years longer for a full game to come out...gt5 will sell at least 10 million units, I just don't think Halo: Reach will...that would mean it sells more than MW2 has sold so far...and I have heard a lot of people say that they are over the Halo generation now.

huaxiong90 (on 16 March 2010)

v Halo: Reach is what should be compared to GT4.

D-Joe (on 16 March 2010)

@brazylianwisnia
how about GT4?

huaxiong90 (on 16 March 2010)

@TT Makaveli: Once again, there is an exclusive PS3 Madden NFL 11 advertising campaign.

BoneArk (on 16 March 2010)

I was 1 out of the 8,715 gamers who pre-ordered Monster Hunter 3 last week. I did my job.

brazylianwisnia (on 16 March 2010)

@Cueil
there is one game that will beat Halo this fall.This game is GT5.Halo 3 weren't even close to GT 3 sales...

GuiltySpartan77 (on 16 March 2010)

halo reach will sell near halo 3 levels

Cueil (on 16 March 2010)

if there is any R.I.P. involved it's going to be every game that competes against Halo this fall... Reach will easily do GoW3 ltd numbers in it's first hour much less it's first full day.... though I understand that you're probably part of the new GoW3 Religion and I shouldn't be insensitive

FranTic91 (on 16 March 2010)

Riiiiiiight, this coming from the fan of a series that hasn't changed one bit since its debut on the PS2.

gtcarro (on 16 March 2010)

I agree with Makaha. Prequels sucks.

Halo series has nothing more to show. It´s an empty series.
R.I.P Halo.

GoW 3 RULES.

Wonktonodi (on 16 March 2010)

some of you guys are just adding the 250k from Canada as preorders to costumers when that was what the retailers ordered.

Makaha (on 16 March 2010)

I don't know about Halo Reach....

It's a prequel....

To me, most prequels suck, look at the Star Wars prequels....

I mean, to me, you already know what's going to happen in the future games/movies, so it's a turn-off to me....I mean to go back in time in the story, it's just a turn-off

I mean, we already know what happened in Halo 1, 2 and 3, so why go back in time??

I've never like prequels in movies or games, so I won't be getting Halo Reach....

And the first Crackdown was an AVERAGE game, at best.

When I played Crackdown, I only maxed out the strength part of the leveling up, but honestly, I got bored of the game after that, and I stopped playing it, it was an average game at best

....so I won't be getting Crackdown 2

and what's with Alan Wake, I never even heard about the game until a few months ago....what's so good about it?

The only 360 game I'm looking forward to is Fable 3

I'm getting Fable 3 day one :-)

But there's nothing else in the 360s upcoming game line up that interests me....I'm burnt out on the Halo series (I didn't even bother to get ODST), and I've never liked Gears, so.....

come on MS, bring out some intriguing games....

and enough with the shooters already!!

-ku- (on 16 March 2010)

Wait so with Canada pre-orders is it 750k for GoW3? Or is it already included?
Either way I hope World Wide it does 2 million because Europe Loves this game more than NA.
At least give us 1.5 million oh mighty sale Gods.

Sapphire (on 15 March 2010)

Pokemon will own

Pho_Hybrid (on 15 March 2010)

Why is JC2 on PS3 lower than 360, it has a nice recording feature :P

Xerofortune (on 15 March 2010)

god of war go go go!!!!

--OkeyDokey-- (on 15 March 2010)

@ iWarMachine

Heavy Rain is a new IP and God of War has an established fanbase that will preorder and buy on the first day.

Joel12345 (on 15 March 2010)

Halo Reach is slowly going to get on top
God of war 3 is going to be the shit

toMsonsLLC (on 15 March 2010)

Man oh man, once GOW3 is out, nothing left to really look forward to as "huge" titles go except for Gran Turismo 5. Kinda weird it will be not to be almost forced to buy a game, I've been making huge dents in my wallet.

--OkeyDokey-- (on 15 March 2010)

Yeah, it seems Sony waiting till the last minute to start advertising GoW III so we won't see the effect of that in the preorders. I'm hoping for 750k at least.

iWarMachine (on 15 March 2010)

i'm totally agreed with prodigy.
with Heavy Rain doing those numbers even with only 100k pre-orders leads me to think that God Of War can do the same thing...since both are single player games hyped as hell.

restored_lost (on 15 March 2010)

theres a lot of xbox up there, wonder what the next big thing ps3 owners have to look forward too, gt5?modnation will be okay but not too big. we need release dates for lat gaurdian and versus 13!

ProdigyBam (on 15 March 2010)

I find it odd that Ioi didnt consider that the Tv ads for GoW3 just started to air on the 13th, the day the pre order charts ended.
So 30-50k should be possible until launch, making it 515-535k pre orders total. 515-535k X 1,52 (same as with ME2 and they are both quite similiar, despite the fact that advertisement started much earlier for mass effect = more pre orders less sales, i assume)
775k-815k first week for GoW3 (not counting that advertisement only influenced the pre order sales for about 3 days, that means a much higher week is likely)
Dont know how ioi thinks that it will only make "650-750k".
And to be honest, we all saw how Heavy Rain made 2 times the pre order totals in its first week, without Tv Spots in America so i think there is a possibilty fpr GoW3 to make 900-1000k
But we will see soon enough..

iWarMachine (on 15 March 2010)

1M first week GOW3 America Only..quote me on it.

Juma009 (on 15 March 2010)

Can you Imagine When the New Zelda gets a release date?

Noobie (on 15 March 2010)

isnt this week jump of GOWIII quite huge.. is Sony advertising in full swing?

TT Makaveli (on 15 March 2010)

why the fukk PS3 Madden NFL got more preorders than the xbox version?

leo-j (on 15 March 2010)

IF GOW III does 700K in the americas.. it should do similar #'s in europe.. and maybe 50K in japan..

so it could do 1.3-1.5 million world wide week 1..

routsounmanman (on 15 March 2010)

@sniper936
I would so kick your ass in Pokemon if I could right now...

Zedex (on 15 March 2010)

Gow3 is gonna be epic!!

heruamon (on 15 March 2010)

This year is already starting off very nicely!

SaviorX (on 15 March 2010)

Zhu Zhu Pets must have gotten a commercial....that steep increase is amazing.

MH3 gets a little love from the demos and the commercials still haven't aired yet. Now that I think about it, Capcom has a lot of games on that list.

Red Steel 2 will probably pull an NMH and sell just about double its final preorder numbers in the first week. Ubisoft probably won't advertise this either, but with all the money they've made off the Just Dance/Assassin's Creed 2 tandem, I don't see why not.

Resonance of Fate is doing a little worse than I expected but w/e.
Just Cause 2 doesn't look too hot. Maybe more people will buy it if they think it is a spin-off of Just Dance. The Just brand lol

sniper936 (on 15 March 2010)

pokemon? really. PEOPLE STILL BUY POKEMON GAMES? I thought no more than 10 people will buy it, despite this is the first i have heard of the game. i mean japan and other asian countries may like pokemon still, but the Americas charts hitting that high on a game for 4 year olds? confusing to say the least.

ownageexpress (on 15 March 2010)

Just preordered God of War 3 and got free overnight shipping from gamestop. No im not advertising just giving you a heads up in case your too lazy like me to drive there lol.

BenVTrigger (on 15 March 2010)

God Of War 3 is gonna have an awesome launch can't wait!

Glad to See Crackdown 2 make an appearance in the top 30

Splinter Cell is looking very nice as well, really hope it gets to the 225k-250k pre-orders before launch

Halo Reach's launch is going to be MASSIVE.

shakarak (on 15 March 2010)

With gamestops killer Preorder deal I'm thinking about preordering Monster Hunter Tri.

Simulacrum (on 15 March 2010)

@ Munkeh
Well we need some reviews of Just Cause 2.It might be next Gta actually, or at least Saints Row...Looks and feels so awesome.
Or its just medicore tittle like first one.

qmoney88 (on 15 March 2010)

finally the boost gow3 deserves, the advertising should boost first week salse as well.

ProdigyBam (on 15 March 2010)

GoW3 First week will be 900-1000k
dont think that this numbers are right

silicon (on 15 March 2010)

Canada has half as many pre-orders and 1 tenth the population. I think Canadians like their PS3s.

routsounmanman (on 15 March 2010)

Go Monster Hunter 3!

*Sound Of Rain (on 15 March 2010)

I am glad to see M.H.3.T selling decent though I am not sure if I will buy this game yet or not. Also great job for S.M.G.2 which is by far my most wanted game of this year out of the games announced so far.

moneyman289 (on 15 March 2010)

@gekkokamen

If you would have told me a month ago that this would be the case, then I would have said you were "off your rocker" :-) However, we have to wait to see the total sales figures before we jump to any conclusions. I am picking up GOW III tonight, Pokemon, however; is a venerable series, but I stopped playing those titles when my left testicle descended :-)

gekkokamen (on 15 March 2010)

If GOW3 is edging out POKEMON, then it's gonna be a monstruos launch.

Munkeh111 (on 15 March 2010)

Only 2 weeks until Just Cause 2, and it only has 50k pre-orders, which I find worrying

RDR has 100k now, and hopefully that will keep growing with plenty of time left before launch

huaxiong90 (on 15 March 2010)

I think RoF will have good word of mouth (hopefully).

Ssenkahdavic (on 15 March 2010)

Good to see Resonance of Fate up their, one of those is mine!

huaxiong90 (on 15 March 2010)

@dirkd: Are you kidding me?! Do you even have the slightest clue on how big the Pokemon franchise is?? It puts games like COD, Gran Turismo, and Halo to shame.

Demotruk (on 15 March 2010)

Wii games sell plenty, they just don't tend to get on preorder charts because they sell to more than enthusiasts.

Hisiru (on 15 March 2010)

@dirkd2323
Pokémon is much more popular than the God of War franchise.

Demotruk (on 15 March 2010)

I'm not worried about Red Steel 2. I think this is going to be one of those "playing is believing" things. The majority of people who have tried it seem to love it, and it's premise is something that's gonna have very wide appeal. I have no doubt the game will sell.

Attoyou (on 15 March 2010)

Good for Gow3! :-D
Glad to see Red Dead Redemption up there, hope it does really Good, but after that i would love to see Rockstar Do a open world Zombie game would be SICK!

sonicshuffle (on 15 March 2010)

Look at all those Wii games... Oh wait there are only 4. How does the console sell so much and the games so little?

forest-spirit (on 15 March 2010)

Monster Hunter Tri incoming!!!

Red Steel 2 and Resonance of Fate = low :-(

hunter_alien (on 15 March 2010)

Cant wait to see the opening of GoW3 :-D

dirkd2323 (on 15 March 2010)

Can't believe a pokemon game would out pre order GOW3, thats crazy

huaxiong90 (on 15 March 2010)

Kind of worried about RS2, but MH Tri is looking good. So is SMG2.

@Winters: Madden NFL 11 has PS3 exclusive advertising in North America.

huaxiong90 (on 15 March 2010)

God of War III just shot up like a rocket. Good.

Tom Clancy's SC: C looking good.

kopstudent89 (on 15 March 2010)

Soo after this PS3 madness, the Wii will start haing a good wave of releases, with RS2, MH3, SMG and then metroid in the next 4 months. Its been sometime since we've had a consistent amount of releases on the Wii(well relatively at least).

GoW3 is gonna have a massive debut, so is Pokemon(even though i expected more). IT's barely been 3 months and we've already had so many great releases!

Winters (on 15 March 2010)

GT5 will grow into a beast sooner or later..when the final release date is confirmed it will take off like a rocket. Interesting to see that Madden 11 has more pre-orders on PS3 compared to its 360 rival, i guess we will see a similar pattern evolving this year.

Tiko7523 (on 15 March 2010)

wow madden on ps3 might actually outsell xbox360 this year.

god of war III hell yeah

METRO 2033 YIKES

ALAN WAKE!!!!! cant wait for that game

alfredofroylan (on 15 March 2010)

Monster HUnter is showing a quite interesting potential here, but it needs a bigger ad support from Nintendo.

Wandamaximoff (on 15 March 2010)

Halo reach..... Growing!!!

I didnt realise msseffect sold so well!!

kopstudent89 (on 15 March 2010)

MH3!! :D

Simulacrum (on 15 March 2010)

Nice..Lots of new titles on there.Go Alan Wake

Buzzi (on 15 March 2010)

MH3 continues its climbing: will enter in top 10 next week. Looking every week more likely a 150+k opening in the Americas.

DemoPS3 (on 15 March 2010)

March NPD : Is 1.000.000 possible for GoW III ?

I think it will be No.1 since Heart Gold and Soul Silver are two different games for NPD.

DirtyP2002 (on 15 March 2010)

and here comes Crackdown 2.

I hope Splinter Cell Conviction can do 250k preorders in the US.

woopah (on 15 March 2010)

looks liek the demo really helped moster hunter tri

nordlead (on 15 March 2010)

No shock for me about ZhuZhu pets. They were all the rage this last Christmas and are likely still popular. I still don't know what they are, but I've heard the name tons of times :-P