Battlefield 3 Pre-Orders Up 2300% Over Battlefield 2

By Nick Baumfeld
Posted on August 10, 2011 AT 09:43am

Amazon has today revealed that pre-orders for many of this years sequels are far outstripping their previous entries.

Having compared a number of titles with their series’ previous titles they discovered that pre-orders for Battlefield 3 were 2000 percent over Battlefield 2′s.

However, Amazon also noted that Modern Warfare 3 is set to outstrip Black Ops and could become their biggest selling title ever.

- 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

Bio: Nick Baumfeld has been involved in the video game industry for a good 12 years. He has seen the industry from all view points and has a background in websites, website integration and social media. Nick pioneered the online video game rental business back in the day, moved forward into online video game trading and then moved viral with the well received Video Games Application on Facebook. Today, he has joined up with EGM founder Steve Harris to create something truly unique and special; EGMNOW, a community dedicated to all manner of gamers.

Gaming MO: Nick is a first person shooter type of gamer and enjoys heated bouts of Halo with friends and family (even while being schooled by his children).

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