Microsoft announced today that Gears of War 2 has sold over 5 million copies WW. The companies announced today a special edition of Gears of War 2 that will include every downloadable content released for the game plus “Gears of War 2: Dark Corners” (which will be available separately for 1,600 Microsoft Points), a game add-on that includes seven new multiplayer maps and a brand new chapter titled “Road to Ruin” that was deleted from the game.
Gamasutra with data compiled from GamerDNA's 150,000 Xbox Live members have focused their analytical powers on Gears of War 2, gamers' playing habits and how much DLC affects gameplay. Their analysis of the gaming data shows that more gamers (74%) tried the original Gears after the first two months post launch than Gears 2 (43.4%) during the same period.
Speaking exclusively to GameDaily BIZ, Gears of War 2 global product manager Guy Welch announced that the title sold over 4 million copies in its first two months on the market. This is double the pace of the original Gears of War, which sold 2 million during that period.
After reaching 2 million units sold in its opening weekend, Epic Games told Edge on Monday that Gears of War 2 has rapidly hit another milestone. Epic Games VP Mark Rein said in an e-mail, "Microsoft confirmed to me this afternoon that Gears of War 2 sell-through surpassed 3 million units as of last week." 2006's original Gear of War took around ten weeks to hit the same mark. Gears 2 did it in four.
Gears of War two has already lost the honor of being the number one most play game on xbox live.
Halo 3 has taken back the top spot, despite the release of a matchmaking patch fixing some of the online issues.
Is it possible to reverse a mistaken transaction ? I thought I was buying it at 900K, and only after buying the Call of Duty 5 I realized that it is a 9 Million transaction. Even Halo couldn't reach that level in a month.
Split-Screen writes: "We met Ashim Mathur, the National Marketing Manager of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. Earlier, Microsoft India had said they expected Gears of War 2 to help boost sales of their console, and today Mathur said that while they can't reveal the exact figures, sales for the 360 went up by 30 to 45 per cent in the wake of Gears 2.
Just like a prophet, 3Suns made the call that the Gearheads would be the first to conquer Wave 50 on Insane difficulty when Cliff divulged that Epic’s best testers only made it to Wave 17 or so. We did it within the first eight days of the game’s release. This image that I provided is proof enough. They're basing this on their scores on the leaderboards.
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