@Gaara42, Um... I don't know what numbers you're looking at Gaara, but Gears of War did not sell more in December than it did in November. CoD4 is following a very similar sales pattern to Gears of War, only on a smaller scale initially, likely due to having so much competition in the FPS lineup including Gears of War and Halo 3.
Also keep in mind that while sales will likely go up week over week up until Christmas, there is usually somewhere between a 50-75% drop on the week after Christmas, which will also be appearing on the December NPDs (5 week month).
I think we can expect about 110-140k/week for the first 4 weeks and then about 50-75k for the final week in December, which would put this stock somewhere in the range between 50DKP-65DKP.
@Gaara42, this will be interesting to track. I think the environment will be a bit different this year as GoW was the driving force behind Xbox 360 sales last holiday. I would assume that most CoD4 purchases were from people who already owned the console. GoW purchases picked up as people picked up the 360 last December.
Do people expect that CoD4 sales will slow down going into December. Its seems that like Gears of War that sales should only increase from November to December (though in this case they might be smaller since it had such a huge launch month).
I must say CoD4 is the most fun I've had while playing an FPS for a while. The game works very well on console--Infinity Ward made it so you can pull the left trigger to target the enemy closest to your cross hair.
Although you aren't fighting in massive WWII battles, the combat still feels pretty large scale as you battle through cities in the Middle East.
I particularly liked the level where you provide air support for ground forces by gunning from a plane (similar to the desert scene in Transformers). there's also some very nice touches like a level where you wear a gillie suit.
The scripting of events is very well done so that the single player campaign feels extremely intense. The single player isn't the longest, but it is very addicting, so you may find yourself beating the single player game in one sitting.
I know what most people are thinking 'what 4million?' But alot of my friends(european) would actually buy this/prefer this than halo 3.Well thats what i think might be a different storie in america.
This price is nice. Funny, all I hear here is that VGC is so untrustworthy, but than, something like those prices happens after VGC has a high number. Interesting.
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@Gaara42, I think the people who picked up CoD4 for the 360 are going to be like the people who picked up CoD3 for the 360. I doubt that a 360 owner who picked up CoD3 is now going to be buying the PS3 version or a Wii game instead. The people who supported the series in the past will support it again because it is the type of game they want to play, and even more now that CoD4 is so much better than CoD3 was.
Pilias I'll be honest with you, in the hope that you will take that as a positive thing and not look at me negatively for telling you. I bid your comment that "CoD3 released in late NOV" down, but I did before you asked who downbid you. Apparently, someone else downbidded you before me, and then someone else upbidded you.
Every place I've check has shown CoD3 release date as NOV 7 for NA. Since we are talking about the Futures, I think it was understood that we were talking about the NA release date. Where did you see the release date?
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Um... I don't know what numbers you're looking at Gaara, but Gears of War did not sell more in December than it did in November. CoD4 is following a very similar sales pattern to Gears of War, only on a smaller scale initially, likely due to having so much competition in the FPS lineup including Gears of War and Halo 3.
Also keep in mind that while sales will likely go up week over week up until Christmas, there is usually somewhere between a 50-75% drop on the week after Christmas, which will also be appearing on the December NPDs (5 week month).
I think we can expect about 110-140k/week for the first 4 weeks and then about 50-75k for the final week in December, which would put this stock somewhere in the range between 50DKP-65DKP.