{"id":13148,"date":"2011-07-26T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-3-pre-orders-keeping-up-with-black-ops-pre-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13148-battlefield-3-pre-orders-keeping-up-with-black-ops-pre-orders","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3 pre-orders keeping up with Black Ops pre-orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to industry analyst firm, Cowen &amp; Company, EA&rsquo;s Battlfield 3 is roughly on par with where Call of Duty: Black Ops was in terms of pre-orders leading up to it&rsquo;s release. Black Ops went on to sell 20 million copies in its first nine months on sale, making it the most successful video game launch to date.<\/p>\n<p>The firm resultantly opted to increase its projected sales figure for the game from eight million to 11 million.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to judge how Battlefield 3 is tracking compared to Modern Warfare 3 which also releases later this year. UK retailer Game earlier this week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-07-18-game-mw3-to-smash-pre-order-record\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> that Battlefield 3 is well on its way to smashing the record set by Black Ops, and that pre-orders are well ahead of where they were on Black Ops this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qj.net\/pc-gaming\/news\/battlefield-one-ups-modern-warfare-3-in-pre-order.html\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to the US&rsquo;s largest games retailer, Gamestop, Battlfield 3 is outselling Modern Warfare 3 at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15994-Battlefield-3-pre-order-numbers-similar-to-Black-Ops-pre-orders?p=482304#post482304\" target=\"_self\">Are you planning on getting either of these games?<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Let us know in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Difficult to say if it&#039;s outselling Modern Warfare 3 at this stage<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148","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=13148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}