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Per the article, it's sold 15M copies, with an additional 10M players on Xbox.
15M copies in a month puts it on pace to be one of the best-selling games ever made.
(Source; Alt text: "By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you.")
Funny, but no, this is really on that pace, and unlike gestation, these kinds of things follow more traditional sales curves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games