Microsoft and Epic have reason to celebrate. The highly anticipated end to the Gears trilogy - Gears of War 3 - has eclipsed 3 million units first week. This covers a period of 5 days in both Americas and EMEAA. This both marks 50% growth over Gears of War 2 and means that it outsold the first weeks of both previous iterations combined.
Gears of War 3 saw decent growth in both Americas and EMEAA, selling 2.15M units in Americas (up 850,000, 65%) and 850,000 in EMEAA (up 260,000, 31%). The franchise typically sees around 6-6.5 million units lifetime, but Gears 3 is set to buck the trend and should surpass 8 million units.
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/ ... pies-in-first-week/1) Dark Souls (PS3) - 260,000
2) Dragon Quest Collection (Wii) - 83,000
3) Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Tag Force 6 (PSP) - 63,000
4) Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection (PS3) - 59,000
5) Busou Shinki: Battle Masters Mk. 2 (PSP) - 36,000
6) Senran Kagura: Shoujotachi no Shinei (3DS) - 34,000
7) Tales of Xillia (PS3) - 22,000
8) To Heart 2 Plus DX (PS3) - 20,000
9) Shadow of the Colossus HD (PS3) - 19,000
10) Gears of War 3 (X360) - 15,000