{"id":12425,"date":"2011-06-17T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"epic-aiming-to-push-six-million-copies-of-gears-of-war-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/12425-epic-aiming-to-push-six-million-copies-of-gears-of-war-3","title":{"rendered":"Epic aiming to push six million copies of Gears of War 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between the first two Gears of War games, the brand has managed to shift a pretty respectable 12 million units at retail, but Epic Games wants to go big, bigger, biggest the third time around.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Definitely over 6 million, obviously,&rdquo; Cliff Bleszinski tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrygamers.com\" target=\"_blank\">IndustryGamers. <\/a>&ldquo;But deep down, just to be perfectly candid and honest, I would die if we hit 10 &ndash; that would be phenomenal. But I can only pray and hope. It&rsquo;s up to the gamers to vote with their wallets.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Much like both previous titles in the series, the developer is banking on the multiplayer to invest the third game with staying power in a pre-holiday launch season that features some significant distractions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We also wanted to deliver a game that has enough stuff so people don&rsquo;t see it as a campaign rental. So you have Beast Mode, you have Horde mode, great versus multiplayer, a great campaign&hellip; hard to deny it. So we want a $60 day one game that people want to keep forever,&rdquo; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3] are going head to head in November, and we have a good month and a half before then and I&rsquo;m hoping if we get enough of that installed base of people who are hooked on our system of ribbons and unlockables and achievement points, gamers will be like, &lsquo;Damnit, no, I have to buy either Call of Duty or Battlefield, cause I&rsquo;m keeping Gears.&rsquo; That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re hoping for.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gears of War 3 launches 20 September worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14813-Epic-aims-to-sell-6-million-copies-of-Gears-of-War-3?p=459271#post459271\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Gears of War 3 <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But \u201cI would die if we hit ten,\u201d says Cliff Bleszinski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}