Black Ops beats Gears of War 3 for current online players

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We've been following closely the online numbers which feature prominently in Gears of War 3 and it seems since launching on the 20th, Friday night had the most simultaneous online players.

The actual numbers peaked at just over 400,000 across the co-op campaign, versus modes and of course people are now playing Horde and Beast modes.

It's now the weekend, and perhaps this evening, the numbers will swell further. In comparison, as of now Call of Duty Black Ops on Xbox 360 has around 260,000 online players which is more than Gears of War 3 which sits just under 177,000. Modern Warfare 2 has just under 70,000 online players. However, considering Gears of War 3 has been out for one week and the sheer numbers of Black Ops sales it's understandable. Can Gears 3 become the most played game on Xbox Live though over the coming weeks?

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Source: http://www.msxbox-world.com/news/article/16465/black-ops-beats-gears-of-war-3-for-current-online-players.html

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CommunicatePosted:

Deano3607 Black Ops < MW2 < MW3 = Battlefield < Gears of War 3

Mw3 & BF3 will blow away Gow3.

100ThievesPosted:

that doesn't prove anything about how good the game is.

IsoPosted:

I give up reading TTG there will always be imbeciles comparing games of a different genre, it's like comparing Ghost Recon with Spyro.

Each game is of their own taste not everyone likes them both, Marmite situation. People will always be biased to what they see/never tried or simply don't care.

I enjoyed all the campaigns on CoD games but doesn't mean to say that the multiplayer is always fantastic, my most memorable times of the series is playing CoD1 on pc online. As for gears, I myself enjoyed 1/2 online more than 3 so far, but again, I loved the campaigns.

People seem to put a downer on games based purely on multiplayer while forgetting about single player, CoD franchaise suffered that fate when they started releasing yearly games with overpriced map packs aimed at the console base.

Numbers are not everything, last time I checked I played games for fun, not to spend the most time complaining on the internet about games I don't like - those that do get over yourselves and move along.

-DeanoPosted:

Black Ops < MW2 < MW3 = Battlefield < Gears of War 3

BSM96Posted:

CrAzYsHoOtEr GOW 3 is much better then cod



IKR but "The most known one, isn't always the best one"

marcusmonsoonPosted:

DeadlyDasher
epraider Numbers, numbers, numbers. Who cares? IMO Gears 3 is MUCH better in quality any Call of Duty. Most FPS's in general as well. IMO.
Lol "MUCH better in quality" quality appearently doesnt matter, people having fun > quality.
You got it wrong.

Quality = People having fun > Quantity (Black Ops)

CrAzYsHoOtErPosted:

GOW 3 is much better then cod

DeadlyDasherPosted:

epraider Numbers, numbers, numbers. Who cares? IMO Gears 3 is MUCH better in quality any Call of Duty. Most FPS's in general as well. IMO.
Lol "MUCH better in quality" quality appearently doesnt matter, people having fun > quality.

WormPosted:

The reason its got more players at the moment is because everyone is saving their money for either bf3 or mw3 or even both! so that's why black ops is winning for online players but gears of war 3 will win sometime this month i bet :D

RickPosted:

umm first of all one game has been out for almost a year and people are tired of it, how could you compare a brand new game to a game people are tired of, of course more people will be plaing GOW3 online than BO because BO sucks now? but between BF3 and MW3 unfortunately the life of GOW3 has a very short life expectancy and will not be at the top for very long


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