Epic Games: Gears of War 3 Beta Drew 1.29 Million Players

Prep Gears of War 3 for its Platinum Hits box. Microsoft and Epic Games announced today that the upcoming trilogy concluding Marcus Fenix adventure has already surpassed 1 million worldwide pre-orders, making it the fastest of any Xbox exclusive to reach the milestone.

[Counter Strike]

Reach beta had 2.7 milions but was included with ODST wich Sold around 6M.

[2fk]

wow guess we goin to see a lot of flaming weapons good thing i had bulletstorm for the flaming hammy =)

[Fallouts]

nice!

my lil bro was apart of it and actually got to play against the dev and owned their asses. ferguson actually talked with him to get an opinion on balance and all that and gave him 1600 ms points and hinted at a surprise for him in the future..

day one for me..

[bangoskank]

Surely you are full of shit because 5 people disagreed with you.

Kidding. Cool story, dude.

[Fallouts]

just kidding....of course... i really dont care if 8 others believe me or not.

[TheColbertinator]

It was a fun beta.I was hoping for beast or Horde mode but I had tons of fun with that Gold Retro Lancer

[Max_Dissatisfaction]

What other sequel this year has sold/pre-ordered more than the prequel? MK9, Portal 2...what else?

[HeavenlySnipes]

No honestly. If you were given an answer would it change your life?

Only game I'm getting on the Xbox. This gen needs more co-op games like Gears.

EDIT: REAL coop games like Gears. Games that were made specifically for co-op like Army of Two, Resident Evil 5 etc..

[Max_Dissatisfaction]

Does something have to change my life for me to want to know it?
I'm just trying to gauge buying habits of people. Seems there's a downward trend somewhat with sequels this year with games like KZ3, LBP 2, SOCOM 4, MOTORSTORM Apocalypse all selling less than their predecessors even with many million more consoles in the market.

[HeavenlySnipes]

If I told you the answer was 4. There are four games this year that have sold and were preordered more than Gears 3. Would you even remember that? No, probably not.

Its quite obvious you were stealth trolling with that comment trying to say that Gears 3 is the most anticipated game of the year. Its like you were begging for someone to come and retaliate with a fanboy comment like

"Gears is the only exclusive teh Xbots have that's why people are playing it lolololol"

Your excuse that you care what people are buying doesn't even relate to your question. (Its also nice that all the games listed in your response are PS3 exclusives)

Don't bother replying ba- oh never mind.

[guigsy]

Huge numbers for a beta. Nice to see that the servers held up well.

[HacSawJimThugin]

This just proves that Gears is one of the greatest games of this generation...just like I always knew. My pre-order is paid for and I can't wait for the summer to be over so I can get back into the fight.

My fiancee liked the beta so much that she is playing Gears 2 to "step her game up" for 3. It's the only game she will watch me play for hours on end...how cool is that?

[ABizzel1]

It may not be everyone's favorite, but Gears is definitely one of the best new IP's this gen.

[jmallymav]

Man..the beta was cool...a big difference from gears 2...can't wait.
I can't even play gears 2 w/o complaining about lag..beta on the other hand, I didn't complain at all..day 1 purchase for sure

[MasterD919]

Game Dev's...keep the betas coming!

[bangoskank]

Would have been cool if we could still play against bots in the beta. Going through withdrawal.

[xtremegamerage]

Max_Dissatisfaction

Because 360 fans only buy shooters, guessing you wanted to hear that.

Now that's out of the way.

The PS3 games you mentioned, a few of them have hardly been out long.

Killzone 2. 2.6mill - Killzone 3. - 1.7mill.

Motorstorm. 3.5mill - Motorstorm apoc. - 850,000 as far as i know is selling faster then pacific rift.

Socom 1.6mill. Socom 4 - 350,000, Socom on the PS2 was only 3.5mill considering userbase, quite small tbh.

LBP 4.5mill - LBP2 1.5mill been out since feb 10th.

Trouble as well is, PS3 like PS2 before it, has tons of exclusives, but there are also tons of great multiplats.

I'm not surprised gears3 would do well. Hopefully it's better then gears2 in every way.

[XRider]

Why are there so many damn trolls on this site? N4G must have been built on a troll bridge, or a troll burial ground like Pet Cemetery. Was just looking at your comments, lol. You spend more time in the 360 section than you do the PS3, and your a PS3 fanboy. Whats up with that?

[Aarix]

This is the first anti-ps3 comment ive seen in...3 weeks

[XRider]

Damn, that's the population of my city.

[xtremegamerage]

Actually XRider i visit all sections.

Whether i comment is another matter.

PS3 fanboy,lol.

Your funny.