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The likes of Gears of War 3, FIFA 12, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 are all recording significantly more pre-orders than previous releases in their respective series, Amazon.co.uk reports.
Amazon.co.uk looked at current pre-orders totals on these titles and compared them to the previous game in the series with the same of amount of time remaining until release.
Battlefield 3 has seen the greatest pre-order boost with over 2,000 per cent more pre-orders than Battlefield 2 had achieved.
- Gears of War 3 (release date 20 September 2011) 216% more pre-orders than Gears of War 2
- FIFA 12 (release date 30 September 2011) 325% more pre-orders than FIFA 11
- Batman Arkham City (release date 21 October 2011) 349% more pre-orders than Batman Arkham Asylum
- Battlefield 3 (release date 28 October 2011) 2,302% more pre-orders than Battlefield 2
- Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (release date 1 November 2011) 488% more pre-orders than Uncharted 2
- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (release date 8 November 2011) 321% more pre-orders than Call of Duty: Black Ops
“We have already started seeing a great deal of excitement about the major video games launches for Christmas this year and that can be seen by how many people are pre-ordering these titles,” said Liz Hosmer, video game manager at Amazon.co.uk Ltd. “Call of Duty: Black Ops is the biggest selling video game of all-time on Amazon.co.uk and it looks from these figures like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 might well be challenging for that title come the end of the year.”
