This weeks pre-order charts courtesy of VGChartz show that Monolith Soft’s forthcoming JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles is the fifth most pre-ordered title in the United States. The critically acclaimed game has had a surge of pre-orders this week bumping it comfortably into the top five. Here’s the top ten pre-ordered video games in the United States.
| Pos | Name | Platform | Weeks | Weekly Change | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diablo III | PC | 7 | 34,774 | 506,212 |
| 2 | Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier | X360 | 8 | 6,676 | 246,270 |
| 3 | Kinect Star Wars | X360 | 1 | 4,620 | 234,252 |
| 4 | Halo 4 | X360 | N/A | 3,288 | 204,087 |
| 5 | Xenoblade Chronicles | Wii | 1 | 18,798 | 187,091 |
| 6 | Luigi’s Mansion 2 | 3DS | N/A | 1,180 | 107,921 |
| 7 | Borderlands 2 | X360 | 25 | 4,916 | 107,086 |
| 8 | BioShock Infinite | X360 | 29 | 1,862 | 106,386 |
| 9 | Max Payne 3 | X360 | 7 | 2,898 | 101,257 |
| 10 | Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier | PS3 | 8 | 1,697 | 88,166 |
I pre-ordered because it is releasing on my birthday :D
I finished it. You WILL LOVE IT. Best rpg since FF7 and that’s saying something
Hope I have the time to play it :/
FF7? That game brings back fond memories. The music in that game went so well with the environments and situations. Now I’m stoked to play. Already have it paid for through Gamestop. Just waiting on the release date.
FF7 was good, I found FF6 better especially music wise. I will pick this one up if it’s a good RPG
Xenoblade is RPG of the Gen for sure. Everyone should play it ^_^
Glad people in America are excited about this amazing game, best JRPG of this generation!
Luigi’s Mansion 2 is number 6!!!
My thoughts exactly! There is no launch date yet and it is up to six in the charts! Hahaha! That’s awesome!
screw that, why the FUCK is star wars kinect in 3rd place?
It was a mistake not to launch it in NA, everyone saw this amount of pre-orders coming.
Now you’re playing with power.
Mistake indeed. They probably lost lots of sales due to piracy.
True, incredibly desperate people could have bought it fro pirates so Xenoblades could have lost quite a few preorders in the US.
Damn it, make Borderlands 2 for the Wii U already. Seriously, I don’t want to buy another PS3 only for that game (sorry, my old one died and I’m not a fan of Sony games).
Wow Luigi’s Mansion is going to be big, and it doesn’t even have a release date yet.
I preordered animal crossing for the 3ds some time last year, I think I may have a problem.
Wow, the 360 dominates the pre-order charts
O.o
Thats because the 360 is the main console in USA… Microsoft is american also so microsoft would sell Xboxes better in USA.
In japan the preorder charts would be full of PS3 or PSV or 3DS I expect.
Europe I’m not sure about, PS3 and 360 dominates as much as each other in Europe.
in japan it would be full of wii, PS3, DS, 3DS, and PSP, PSV isnt doing so well there
Game preorders for PSV could be high, because it’s mainly the gamers who buy it and preorder.
they’re lucky they brought it over here otherwise I would have pirated the eu version. don’t mess with gamers cause we always win in the end.
Does anyone else think that the most interesting thing about this should be that Luigi’s Mansion 2 is #6 even though there hasn’t been a release date announcement!?
Yup, also considering there’s so little we know about the game itself :)
^This
Maybe Nintendo should pay more attention to this, instead of leaking info about games we already know how’s it gonna be, like Mario Tennis Open.
That would be bad marketing. Much better to advertise for games coming out soon. If Nintendo began forcing Luigi’s Mansion 2 details on us now, they’d be hard-pressed to keep the stream of information consistent, constant, and relevant. They’d also be shooting themselves in the foot by taking eyes off of sooner releases.
You also need to remember that not everyone grew up playing N64 and GameCube and therefore wouldn’t know much about Mario Tennis.
Oh dang, it comes in two days and I still haven’t pre-ordered it!
Glad for Xenoblade is doing well outside of Japan. I’m just wandering why is Kinect Star Wars above Xenoblade, Halo 4, and those other good games. I like Star Wars but I’m not to fond of Kinect.
How the hell is Star Wars kinect better than Xenoblade Chronicles?
Everyone hated Star Wars Kinect after seeing the comments after E3 2011 demo of SWK.
I think it’s all the kids buying the game… you know… don’t look about the game but just because it says Starwars they buy it.
Oh I sees.
Me is gays gets over it.
when i don’t see Resident Evil 6 on these lists it makes me sad. GOOD FOR XENOBLADE!
lol its funny, i pre-order the two first ones.
yea i pre-ordered ghost recon FS. its gonna be the shit.
cant wait for diablo 3 though, thank god i have both a PC and console
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