Gears of War 2 has only been in shops since Friday but the weekend saw sales sky rocket to over 2 million worldwide.  Of those 2 million more than half - 1.5 million - logged onto Xbox Live while playing the game, racking up 15 million hours and a record for concurrent players on Xbox Live. If you still haven’t had enough big numbers then ponder the fact that 19 million Achievements were also gained.

While bears that crap in the woods could have figured out that Gears of War 2 would have incredible sales you still have to give a nod to Epic Games’ idea of launching the game on the same day worldwide. Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski (who, I may add, is a legend) had this to say:

“We were so excited to launch Gears of War 2 on the same day all around the world, something virtually unheard of in the games business. We wanted our fans, no matter where they live, to have a shared experience on day one, and that’s exactly what’s happened.” - Eurogamer

With Christmas coming up you could be forgiven for expecting those numbers to double over the next month or so. I’ll be one of those buying the game at Christmas as I have enough games on my radar making my wallet suffer. Why not compare prices here on Pricegrabber and pick a copy up yourself?

Gears of War sells 2 Million Units (and we unlocked over 19 million Achievements) - Major Nelson