$9.9 billion spent on gaming in 2004…
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Jan 19th 2005 at 3:20PM }
And that was a 1 percent decline from 2003! The newest trend was portable gaming, as sales for all things handheld broke the $1 billion mark for the first time—DS, baby!
Continue on for the list of the top 10 best-selling games (does not include PC sales), as ranked by the NPD:
GTA: San Andreas - 5.1 million
Halo 2 - 4.2 million
Madden 05 (PS2) - 3.2 million
ESPN 2K5 (PS2) - 1.5 million
NFSU2 (PS2) - 1.4 million
Pokemon FireRed (GBA) - 1.2 million
Live 05 (PS2) - 1.2 million
Spider-Man 2 (PS2) - 1.1 million
Halo - 1.1 million
ESPN 2K5 (Xbox) - 1.0 million
Some surprises, no?
