The Gaming Buzz on Twitter: July 17

Scribbled on July 17th, 2009 by Jordan Lund
Filed in Features, Game Genres, Platforms, The Gaming Buzz

For the first time since we began tracking video game tweets on what games people are talking about, there is not a domination of the top two titles. Sure, World of Warcraft and The Sims 3 are still the top 2, but Battlefield 1943 almost doubles the number of tweets over last week, jumping up from 6644 to over 10,000 tweets. Right behind it is Modern Warfare 2 at 9,348 – amazing for a game that is still months away.

Joining the list for the first time is Heavy Rain, an upcoming Playstation 3 exclusive. Unfortunately, the buzz has been around the fact that it’s been delayed to 2010. A shame for such a good looking game, but there you go.

The Top 10 Tweeted Titles

World of Warcraft PC 18896
The Sims 3 PC 10583
Battlefield 1943 Multi 10388
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Multi 9348
Halo 3 Xbox 360 6334
Second Life PC 5990
Fallout 3 Multi 4821
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multi 4722
Wii Fit Wii 4594
Heavy Rain PS3 3504

When looking at the top tweeted unreleased games that seems to be a pattern. Nobody had been talking about BioShock 2 until it was also announced as being delayed. For the first time we see buzz about a Guitar Hero game, hopefully that will bode well when GH5 releases in September.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 9348
Heavy Rain 3504
BioShock 2 2190
Aion 2194
Guitar Hero 5 2099

In the past month the top Tweeted games look pretty similar to the weekly charts, with higher numbers of course:

World of Warcraft – 62,277
The Sims 3 – 53,866
Halo 3 – 24,340
Second Life – 20,609
Fallout 3 – 19,192
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – 18,933
Wii Fit – 18,059
Battlefield 1943 – 17,893
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – 17,657
Fight Night: Round 4 – 14,217

When it comes to new releases in the past month they don’t seem to have much holding power on Twitter. The Sims 3 does well – though had we checked the past month a week ago, The Sims 3 would have won hands down with 90,000 tweets (due to its release on June 2) Battlefield 1943 came out of nowhere. But other major titles are nowhere to be found. Prototype started off strong then petered out, only getting a total of 6,586 tweets in a month. Since release, The Conduit has had 6,369 Tweets; some games get more than that in a single week! InFamous came out at the end of May and has had a total of just 2,305 Tweets. Not what you’d call overly popular, despite selling just under 400,000 copies.

(Stats via Tweet My Gaming.)

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