Americas Preorder Charts - 19th Sep 09
By Brett Walton 21st Sep 2009
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Halo 3: ODST preorders reach 1.35m the week before release as Wii Fit Plus makes a first appearance. Uncharted 2 also sees a strong increase this week.
Final Halo 3 preorders reached nearly 1.35 million this week, which should be good for an opening of nearly 2 million units in the Americas alone (over 2.5 million worldwide). VGChartz will be posting day 1 numbers when they become available in the next couple of days so stay tuned. Uncharted 2 saw a large boost this week as the marketing push begins for the game. At the current rate of preordering, the game could see an opening of 250,000 - 350,000 in the Americas in the first week. The full top 40 is listed below:
Pos Game Platform Preorders Weekly Change Weeks to Release
1 Halo 3: ODST X360 1,349,189 138,199 1
2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 X360 1,309,012 81,090 8
3 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PS3 430,364 30,157 8
4 Assassin's Creed II X360 186,551 11,808 9
5 Assassin's Creed II PS3 117,505 8,506 9
6 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves PS3 114,758 31,376 4
7 Tekken 6 PS3 109,318 2,155 6
8 Forza Motorsport 3 X360 104,181 8,505 6
9 Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days DS 99,739 18,608 2
10 Left 4 Dead 2 X360 92,476 6,130 9
11 New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii 86,152 10,402 9
12 Dragon Age: Origins X360 83,148 828 7
13 NBA 2K10 X360 77,225 6,364 3
14 Tekken 6 X360 70,360 1,165 6
15 Demon's Souls PS3 65,991 1,401 3
16 NBA 2K10 PS3 61,591 4,365 3
17 Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 PS3 57,558 1,531 2
18 Bakugan: Battle Brawlers DS 51,273 2,673 5
19 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction X360 51,193 231 N/A
20 Dragon Age: Origins PS3 49,415 2,891 9
21 Brutal Legend X360 49,385 4,687 4
22 Wii Fit Plus Wii 47,233 24,486 3
23 Mass Effect 2 X360 42,926 514 N/A
24 Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time PS3 42,308 3,771 6
25 Borderlands X360 37,131 5,187 4
26 WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 X360 36,349 10,902 5
27 WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 PS3 35,725 10,429 5
28 DJ Hero X360 35,217 9,971 6
29 BioShock 2 X360 33,950 890 N/A
30 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 X360 33,750 3,005 N/A
31 DJ Hero PS3 33,249 9,347 6
32 Alpha Protocol X360 32,665 2,634 5
33 Shin Megami Tensei: Persona PSP 32,611 1,517 1
34 MAG: Massive Action Game PS3 29,852 5,403 18
35 Brutal Legend PS3 29,143 2,492 4
36 Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising X360 28,223 2,946 3
37 God of War III PS3 26,718 1,895 N/A
38 DJ Hero Wii 26,385 8,907 6
39 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PS3 25,799 1,656 N/A
40 Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Wii 25,249 2,869 9
There are a number of new games showing up this week, mainly due to the large number of new releases this week which has cleared a number of spots in the preorder chart. Wii Fit Plus is a large gainer - like most casual titles, preorders won't really begin to pick up until close to release and even then the game will perform far stronger than the preorders would suggest. Expect to see a similar thing with New Super Mario Bros Wii - 85,000 preorders already is hardly a poor performance but first week sales should easily top 500,000 units and long-term sales will be tens of millions.
A number of 2010 games feature on the list - Splinter Cell: Conviction, Mass Effect 2, BioShock 2, MAG, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and God of War III are already positioning themselves to be very strong performers in Q1 2010 - opening weeks in excess of 250,000 are pretty much guaranteed.
You can see last weeks chart here, and be sure to check back next week for the latest movers and shakers.