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EA claims Medal of Honor has broken franchise pre-order record

by Alexander Sliwinski on Sep 30th 2010 2:20PM

Electronic Arts announced this morning that its massively marketed Medal of Honor reboot, launching October 12, has had the highest number of "pre-sells," as it calls them, "in the franchise's 11-year history." Considering the franchise's shaky history for the past eight years, and the absence of bonus goodies like Battlefield 3 beta access, that achievement is kinda like winning the Tour de France on a Harley.

No actual pre-sell figures were shared by EA. We'll get our first retail reports from the UK charts next month, followed by a much clearer picture from the NPD report in November. Our blessings go out to all the games getting involved in that brutal month's retail warfare.

Medal of Honor (9/16/2010)

Source: Press Release

Tags: Electronic-Arts, medal-of-honor, Medal-of-Honor-2010, microsoft, pc, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (39)

Oh, I C what U did thar.......

I'll show ye...

@zebediah

Soldier: This is the worst part. The calm before the battle.
Fry: And then the battle is not so bad?
Soldier: Oh, right. I forgot about the battle.

Header win.

Lol, perfect use of that picture.

If that's the best boast EA can come up with I have doubts for MOH's final performance

I kinda hope it flops so DICE would learn that karma bites back for the sorry "VIP" thing, and address the mapathy of BC2 (anyone knows are the Vietnam DLC for BC2 integrated into base game map rotation? or it's basically a 4-maps seperate mode, a la Battlefield 1969?)

People are already starting to get sick of Modern Warfare-type games.

Solution? Create more! :D

@Nero6
I second that.

An other thing...
Don't understand the urge for useless info like this. Who cares, i don't.
This doesn't urge me to go out and buy one.
This sounds more like EA lying to themselves or trying not to sound desperate BY sounding desperate and having a weird smile at the end.

@Nero6 well i'm not sick of them if they have a lengthily and decent single player ,no way in hell i'm touching multiplayer.

@Nero6
Works for guitar hero

@Nero6
World War II games were the same way and now I miss them

I can believe this. The past games have never really seemed to sell that much since Call of Duty came to be.

Will be interesting to see how this fairs against Black Ops.

They shouldn't be counting my canceled preorder....

@religiousjedi
Same here. Cancelled mine after the the beta closed. Played it for one day and had enough. I have a feeling MoH will be one of those games that gets discounted right after release to bump up sales.

So instead of zero pre-orders like the last bunch, this one has "some".

way to go?

I wonder if this counts my futureshop preorder?

This is the funniest post I have ever read on joystiq.
EVER I said!

@mat1cs
EVARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!...

Plus, pre-orders are just a much bigger thing nowadays so it's not really a fair assessment of how good the game is doing.

Pretentious claims are pretentious.

technically, they are right. Heck, there was a medal of honor game this generation. I am more excited for this than the next CoD.

@Madgame

To shreds you say...

I'm going to say this once again, that picture is full win.

"like winning the Tour de France on a Harley."

Made my day, Joystiq.

Perfect picture to go along w/ the headline.

EA can be so funny at times lol

Cool, first Naughty Bear, now Medal of Honor? Outstanding! Oh, wait..

Good news everyone!

Considering I picked up Battlefield Bad Company 2 around the release date without pre-ordering after printing off a Dell product page to get 11 dollars off at Best Buy, I could see why there might be a little more interest in this pre-order.

Okay wait, I forgot that you had to pre-order just to get into the Beta. That's probably why.

that thumbnail was perfect

preordered mine last night. definitely want to get in on the BF3 beta.

Looking forward to the single player campaign. Multiplayer should be fun for about a week before it because a cheatfest against people who play little else 24/7,

I'm not big on the whole game. Beta sucked regardless of it being just that, a beta. It was terrible. Dice doing the MP is lame as I'm not big on BF:BC past SP. If only the MP of MoH was like the SP footage I've been seeing. For shame. I think this will fail on that fact but first on how bad the beta presented itself.

I guess I'll have to swallow some more of that broken juice Call of Duty is bringing. I feel crappy about liking FPS.

I highly doubt it will come close to Black ops's sales.

or even Halo reach

Why is this even news? MOH games from the past werent ever pre-order newsworthy. Of course this game is gonna get more preorders than normal because it's riding on COD's succes.

What ever guys. Game previews have been looking pretty good on this game. Only negative thing I can say about it was it had a poor beta but DICE has a pretty solid track record.

@MarkHawk

I agree, I almost didn't want the game because of how crappy the beta was, but it's a beta and I'd be pretty pathetic if I judged the game just by the beta.

http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll151/IndieTarheel/Shenanigans-PicardRikerandQ.jpg

I almost canceled my preorder for this, based on the strength of Reach. I liked Reach better than I thought I would, and MoH will be cutting into my already limited Halo: Reach playtime. But I LOVED BF: BC2. More than any game this past year. So despite the community's feelings about the MoH beta, and my current love affair with Bungie's offering, I am willing to give DICE the benefit of the doubt here, and buy MoH day one. But you only get ONE gimmie DICE... if you burn me here... I don't forget.

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