{"id":385339,"date":"2025-08-30T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385339\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:44:12","slug":"gears-of-war-reckons-its-ended-the-console-war-as-reloaded-tops-1-million-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385339\/","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War Reckons It&#8217;s Ended the Console War as Reloaded Tops 1 Million Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Gears of War Reckons It&#039;s Ended the Console War as Reloaded Tops 1 Million Players 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/6ea27238abe4f\/gears-of-war-reckons-its-ended-the-console-war-as-reloaded-tops-1-million-players-1.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gears-of-war-reckons-its-ended-the-console-war-as-reloaded-tops-1-million-players-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Gears of War Reckons It's Ended the Console War as Reloaded Tops 1 Million Players 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than one million players have tried out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/gears_of_war_reloaded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gears of War Reloaded<\/a> following its release across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GearsofWar\/status\/1961474052557557990\">According to the developer<\/a>, this milestone means the title is \u201cending the console war, one grub at a time\u201d. We\u2019re not so sure about that.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>Ending the console war, one grub at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for 1 million players. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h5mwExPCxh\">pic.twitter.com\/h5mwExPCxh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gears of War (@GearsofWar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GearsofWar\/status\/1961474052557557990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The player number has likely been accelerated by free upgrades on platforms where the franchise has existed before, as well as its inclusion on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Xbox Game Pass<\/strong><\/a>. But we have to imagine full-price PS5 sales are strong, as the series is making its PlayStation debut on Sony\u2019s system.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-us\/pages\/browse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US PS Store<\/a>, the remaster is currently ranked 10th on the best-sellers list, behind only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/metal_gear_solid_delta_snake_eater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater<\/a> and evergreen releases such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/roblox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roblox<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/fortnite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fortnite<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/madden_nfl_26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madden NFL 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-watch\"><a title=\"Watch This Video on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fQu8hF6TU4Q\" class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on <strong> YouTube<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/pushsquare?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">Push Square<\/a> on <a class=\"sub-button external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/pushsquare?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube160k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019d certainly be interesting to see a breakdown of sales across all systems, but we\u2019re unlikely to ever get that level of granular data outside of estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Did you pick up Gears of War Reloaded yet and what are your thoughts on the game overall? Active reload your thoughts into the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/x.com\/GearsofWar\/status\/1961474052557557990\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GearsofWar\/status\/1961474052557557990\">x.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1743494892_723_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sammy Barker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than one million players have tried out Gears of War Reloaded following its release across PS5, Xbox&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[73860,55,493,53,16,15,54],"class_list":{"0":"post-385339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gears-of-war","9":"tag-ps5","10":"tag-sales","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-xbox-game-studios"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115118491048710326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}