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Amazon the major\u00a0on-line\u00a0retailer has today announced that we as gamers are pre-ordering more than ever. The big releases due in the fall have all seen massive pre-order percentage increases compared to their predecessors.<\/p>\n

Pre-order uplifts versus previous title with same amount of time\u00a0<\/strong>remaining until release:<\/strong><\/p>\n

FIFA 12 (release date 30 September 2011)<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0325% more pre-orders than FIFA 11
\nBatman Arkham City (release date 21 October 2011)<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0349% more pre-orders than Batman Arkham Asylum
\nBattlefield 3 (release date 28 October 2011) \u00a0<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2,302% more pre-orders than Battlefield 2
\nUncharted 3 Drakes Deception (release date 1 November 2011)<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0488% more pre-orders than Uncharted 2
\nCall of Duty Modern Warfare 3 \u00a0(release date 8 November 2011) \u00a0<\/em> 321% more pre-orders than Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/p>\n

Liz Hosmer the video game manager at Amazon.co.uk went on to say that:<\/p>\n

“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\u2019 is the biggest selling video game of all-time on Amazon.co.uk and it looks from these figures like \u2018Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3\u2019might well be challenging for that title come the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those figures look promising for a massive end of the year. However its simply staggering the percentage increase that Battlefield 3 has over Battlefield 2, could it over take Call of Duty as the most successful first person shooter series? All will be revealed later in the year, personally I cannot wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon the major\u00a0on-line\u00a0retailer has today announced that we as gamers are pre-ordering more than ever. The big releases due in the fall have all seen massive pre-order percentage increases compared to their predecessors. Pre-order uplifts versus previous title with same amount of time\u00a0remaining until release: FIFA 12 (release date 30 September 2011) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":3857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[33,7,1],"tags":[83,87,86,85,84],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/playstationer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/battlefield_3_wallpaper.jpg?fit=1600%2C1000","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1vnBy-1gE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playstationer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/playstationer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/playstationer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playstationer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playstationer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/playstationer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playstationer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playstationer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playstationer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playstationer.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}