US Pre-Order Numbers for Modern Warfare 3 VS. Battlefield 3

From Charlieintel:

 

With less than a week to go for Battlefield 3 and less than 3 weeks for Modern Warfare 3, we thought it would be a good time to compare near final pre-order numbers for one of the biggest FPS wars of the century.
Modern Warfare 3
-Xbox 360: 1,719,144
-PS3: 672,562
-Total: 2,391,706
Battlefield 3
-Xbox 360: 1,072,593
-PS3: 448,616
-Total: 1,521,209
No one really expected Battlefield 3 to outsell Modern Warfare 3 (even according to EA), yet there’s no question that BF3 has created more hype and obtained 6x the amount of pre-orders as its predecessor Bad Company 2. However even with a 5 month head start, Modern Warfare 3 has managed to capture 1,170,497 more pre-orders than BF3… FTW
*Interestingly enough, Battlefield 3 has been marketed as a “PC Lead” title, however BF3 console pre-orders are beating PC pre-orders (146,809) at a rate of 10 to 1.

**Also, Playstation 3 has access to BF3 DLC one week early, yet Xbox 360 pre-orders are beating PS3 at a rate of 2 to 1.

-Original SOURCE: VGChartz

Best Buy is Looking to Put Gamestop Out of Business

My daughter works for Best Buy and she informed me that her store was going big on Gaming, devoting an entire section of their showroom to Gamers. It looks like they take back used games for trade-in or a Best Buy gift card.

From Dualshockers.com:

"In this new area of the store, Best Buy will be placing “specialists” who will know a thing or two about games. They’re going as far as hiring “gaming supervisors” who will be designated to oversee the new section in each of their stores. We’ve already seen somewhat of a gaming push in Best Buy stores as of late with some locations going as far as installing DLC kiosks and others being involved in used game sales for some time now.

The retailer will now be jumping into the used hardware business, as well. They’ll be offering more incentive and higher trade in values than GameStop for your used games and hardware offering either cash back or  the option of an additional 20% kick back if you decide to take a Best Buy gift card instead, which can be spent on anything else in the store. Hopefully something like this can actually help bring some serious competition to the used games market, and in turn bring trade values up in favor of the consumers instead of the other way around.

Will you got to Best Buy instead of Gamestop?