Red Dead Redemption Sells 550,000 Copies on Day One on VGChartz.com
Following news of over 450,000 pre-orders earlier in the week, preliminary data is in and Read Dead Redemption sold around 550,000 units on day one in the Americas. Many analysts had been conservative in their predictions for the game, Michael Pachter in particular stating that he was sceptical as to whether a western game could ever sell as well as Rockstar were hoping.
With continued strong sales through the week and a similarly large European launch tomorrow, VGChartz estimates worldwide week one sales of around 1.2 - 1.3 million units. This should be enough to smash average analyst predictions of two million lifetime sales for the game within just 3 weeks of release and total sales could be as high as four million units or more that double the amount that many analysts had predicted.