Amazon UK’s latest Pre-Order stats show that we love sequels!

I love new IP, and in recent years, a number of companies have been pushing some new properties with great results. EA has been one of the companies on the forefront with both Dead Space and Mirrors Edge being very well received. Looking at these figures from Battlefield 3 among others, they will certainly be happy with these latest numbers from Amazon UK.

Amazon UK has taken current pre-order totals and compared them to the previous games in the series over the same amount of time before release, see below for the breakdown.

Pre-order uplifts versus previous title with same amount of time remaining until release:

Gears of War 3 (release date 20 September 2011)                                     216%
more pre-orders than Gears of War 2

FIFA 12 (release date 30 September 2011)                                                  325%
more pre-orders than FIFA 11

Batman Arkham City (release date 21 October 2011)                               349%
more pre-orders than Batman Arkham Asylum

Battlefield 3 (release date 28 October 2011)                                               2,302%
more pre-orders than Battlefield 2

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (release date 1 November 2011)        488%
more pre-orders than Uncharted 2

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (release date 8 November 2011)         321%
more pre-orders than Call of Duty: Black Ops

Liz Hosmer, Video Game manager at Amazon UK states –

“We have already started seeing a great deal of excitement about the major video games launches for Christmas this year and that can be seen by how many people are pre-ordering these titles, Call of Duty: Black Ops’ is the biggest selling video game of all-time on Amazon.co.uk and it looks from these figures like ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’might well be challenging for that title come the end of the year.”