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Posting on the official Gears of War forums, Epic Games vice president Mark Rein has responded to forum comments suggesting sales of Gears of War 2 are poor.
“XBL stats are up and gears is in second already. this means less cash and actual decline in sales now and in the future,” posted forum member GameOover.
Rein responded: “Wow, didn’t take long for somebody to turn Halo’s huge popularity into some sort of negative rational for Gears2 but you’d have to apply that same negative rational to every single game on Xbox Live as well.
“Gears is in second because Halo 3 has been out for over a year and a half and has probably sold nearly 9,000,000 copies by now. So when they offer reduced-priced multiplayer DLC users come back to the game and they get a spike in their user base that dwarfs ALL of the other games on Xbox Live – especially new games that have only been out for a few weeks such as Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World at War.”
Rein concluded: “But being in second is still pretty amazing considering we’ve only had the time to sell a small fraction of the numbers they have sold.”
Gears of War 2 certainly deserves all the success it gets and we fully expect it to be up there challenging for plenty of Game of the Year awards. Find out why in the VideoGamer.com review.
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