EEDAR: Mass Effect 2 best-selling January release ever
by Griffin McElroy 
on Feb 12th 2010 1:30PM
EEDAR vice president and analyst Jesse Divnich has sent out some surprising facts about game sales during the month of January. Well, okay -- it
isn't exactly chart shattering that a crapton (that's 572,000) of
Mass Effect 2 units were sold last month, but, according to EEDAR's calculations, the game managed to become the best-selling January release of all time in just six days of retail availability. Even with such a small window to achieve the record,
Mass Effect 2 completely destroyed the previous record-holder: Poor, poor
NFL Street for PS2 (with 325,000 units in sales, for the
old record).
Though
Mass Effect 2 certainly set a high bar for the quarter, Divnich's report suggests that game sales aren't likely to decline with blockbusters like
Final Fantasy XIII and
God of War III just around the corner. His firm also promises to closely watch sales of
Dante's Inferno -- if the game can can beat its expected sales target of 500,000 units over the next three months, it means that those
outlandish PR stunts were effective and we can look forward to more cake arms and
$200 checks once
Purgatorio is inevitably announced.
Awesome.
