Analyst: Best of E3 winners see strong domestic sales

So critics hit the mark eight out of nine times?

Winning should definitely help reduce the publicity budget necessary to get to a million, increasing profit.

Jet Grind Radio's relatively poor sales make me very sad.

Well when you consider Jet was a DC exclusive, that explains why it flopped in comparison to the rest.

I like the fact that the first party/exclusive thing has been shattered though. Good old Fallout 3 :D

It's disappointing that the two best games on the list (MGS2, JGR) had two of the lowest sales numbers.

Man, JSR deserved so much better.

HA! Halo 2 only sold 6,541 copies. That's less than PSYCHONAUTS! Take that Halo fanboys!

I love Halo 2 and JSR

I'm disappointed that more people haven't purchased Mass Effect according to this chart. I really hope that EA makes Mass Effect multiplatform so more people can experience it, and so Bioware can get their money's worth. Yes, I'd love to play it on PS3, but I think Bioware deserves the money. They have an excellent track record.

Fallout 3 will make it. It won't be a huge title, on the level of some of these other ones, but it'll hit at least a million on 360 alone

Are these numbers only for the year they were released or something? Gears is listed as 2.8m, but aren't its actual sales closer to 5m?

1) That chart is in thousands. Whoever made it forgot to note that fact. Thus 6,541 x 1,000 - 6,541,000. That how many copies of Halo were sold.

2) The average lifetime units sold is wildly inncaurate because of the outlier that is Halo 2 and Jet Grind Radio

If you remove H2 from the counting the average number of titles sold drops to 1,909,375.

If you remove JGR, the number increases to 2,690,250.

If one removes both JGR and H2, the average units sold is 2,190,143.

The last number would be the most accurate as it eliminates influential results that will skew the average units sold.

woo statistics!