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Microsoft announces weekend sales of 2 million copies and a new record for concurrent Xbox Live players...
While the Master Chief might very well be the Zac Efron of Microsoft pin-up shooters, Marcus Fenix has now secured his position as the bad boy alternative after Gears of War 2 pulled in 2 million worldwide unit sales over the weekend.
According to Microsoft figures, 1.5 million people logged into Gears of War 2 on Live during the weekend following release, tallying 15 million gameplay hours and 19 million Achievements collectively while setting a new Xbox Live record for concurrent players in the process.
When Halo 3 was released last September, Microsoft kept figures for the amount of units shifted in the game's first 24 hours of sales very close to its chest, although the Redmond giant was happy to publicise US pre-order figures of 1.7 million copies.
We very much suspect that Gears of War 2 hasn't worried Halo 3's impressive sales records for the first weekend of sales. Nevertheless, with 2 million copies shifted on a single platform, this puts Gears 2 firmly into GTA IV and Halo 3 territory.
Shiam Jai, the first UK customer to get his hands on a copy of the game, had the following to say about his purchase (presumably with a Microsoft Taser inches from his eyeball):
"I've been waiting two years for this moment and now I've finally got my hands on it. It's going to be the greatest game of all time, made even better by being able to play it on the greatest console of all time.''
Better than SEGA's Mega CD? Surely not. Let us know your thoughts in the comments...
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Added:Sun 22nd Aug 2010 12:03, Post No: 185
lol M$ took a risk of releasing a crap and unreliable console but that diddnt stop people buying it, and still today people beleave the 360 is the top selling console thinking its sold over 40 million world wide (out of 40 million 33% have broken, stripped down for parts, or are sitting in game stores as preowned units) the totalnumber of 360's in actual use is closer to 27 million not 42 million lol you fanboys love to exagerate things dont you.
and likewise thr real reason why gears 1 diddnt sell very well on pc is cause epic mad an epic mistake when they ported it accross (no mid or low end pc could run the game pretty much what almost 80% of pc's are low to mid end, a high end pc is close to £800 to build and a top end is over £1000) if gears 1 had more options for lower spec pc's it would have sold more but typical microsoft was only intrested in lining there pockets with more $$$, also another reason why it diddnt sell well is cause of piracy, the game was an easy target for hackers who hacked the DRM.
if you go back to when gears 2 was released cliff said the game would not be comming to pc as if it did hackers would do what they did with gears 1 and make pirate copys and likewise its the same for gears 3.
you can keep your boring exclusive inferiour console game and control method (the 360 pad is a toy compared to pc controlls) the pc is for adults where as the 360 is like a leapfrog, lol you can keep your leapfrog exclusives, there sh** anyway.
Added:Sat 21st Aug 2010 19:16, Post No: 184
cliff bleszinski is a son of a [#@!?]............
Added:Wed 14th Apr 2010 13:19, Post No: 183
id much prefer they placed gears of war 2 on pc and use the DRM of ubisoft, rather than not making one at all which is why i support ubi's uber DRM. if the DRM fails the whole PC-port games from ubi will crash and might end up like Gears of War...
and i was really looking forward for this game in pc, :(
Added:Tue 06th Apr 2010 17:19, Post No: 182
thanks you much keep you going to become
Added:Tue 09th Mar 2010 16:51, Post No: 181
Lol, I love how you PC fanboys keep b*itching about how Gears of War 2 is a 360 exclusive & is never coming other PC. You guys should just STFU! Gears of War 2 is a 360 exclusive & is ALWAYS going to be a 360 exclusive! You want to know why? Because when they released the first Gears of War onto the PC it didn't make them a lot of money. So why should they waste their time & money to make a port that won't make them nearly as much money as the 360 version?
Added:Mon 08th Mar 2010 17:36, Post No: 180
WTF, this is hilarious. I've been consistently having problems finding a match. It usually takes 30 mins for me to find one. I've got great internet connection, I don't have this problem for any other one of my games. Left for Dead 2, COD, NCAA, etc. Only GOW2. I'm doing an experiment, see how long I can be in the lobby for, so far it's been 3 hours 22 minutes and 15 seconds.
This game fn blows. I'm really tempted to just take it out and snap it in half.
F U GOW2
Added:Sun 10th Jan 2010 21:50, Post No: 179
best game ever
Added:Thu 31st Dec 2009 12:13, Post No: 178
Of course Microsoft wants to make money - it's a business. Also, the reason Gears 2 isn't coming to PC is not because it wants to make money from Xbox 360 exclusivity, but because it doesn't want to LOSE money with a PC release. It took that risk with the first Gears and it didn't pay off then, so why should it now?
Added:Wed 30th Dec 2009 17:57, Post No: 177
These Microsoft people just want to make money from GOW2 by keeping it exculsive to xbox360.
Added:Fri 13th Nov 2009 12:09, Post No: 176
lol why would they release it on pc in fact why should they all you lot will do is download the pirate version anyway which is what happened with the first gears game on pc so instead of [#@!?]ing about it not comming out on pc youve only got your selfs to blame (or the idiots who diddnt pay for it in the shops/downloaded the pirate version)