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the-pi-guy said:

Actually in the article it says that number is the median.  

This means that all we know is that 50% of all games sold more than this, and 50% sold less.  

A game could have sold a billion copies, and instead of changing everything, the tide would just slightly rise.  Maybe 32,001.  

For example, the median  in these two lists is 26

1; 26; 2,000

15;26;500,000

As you can see we can't pull together any meaningful information such as knowing what the total software sales are.  

Both lists are the same median wise, but the totals couldn't be more different and neither could the average.  2,027 vs 500,041


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