Editing Enter the Matrix (section)

==Sales==
Within a week of release, Atari announced that the game had sold 1 million units for all four platforms in North America and Europe combined.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/05/24/the-matrix-sells-a-million | title=The Matrix Sells a Million | date=May 24, 2003 | access-date=October 4, 2022 | archive-date=October 4, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004154745/https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/05/24/the-matrix-sells-a-million | url-status=live }}</ref> By June, the game sold 2.5 million units and became the company's fastest-selling title in history.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/06/19/matrix-sells-25-million-3 | title=Matrix Sells 2.5 Million | date=June 19, 2003 | access-date=October 4, 2022 | archive-date=October 4, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004154745/https://www.ign.com/articles/2003/06/19/matrix-sells-25-million-3 | url-status=live }}</ref> Within March 2004, the title sold 5 million units, and was reissued under the console's budget labels around this time.<ref name="Pay Less to Enter the Matrix"/> By July 2006, the PlayStation 2 version of ''Enter the Matrix'' had sold 1.2 million copies and earned $58 million in the United States. ''[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]'' ranked it as the 39th highest-selling game launched for the [[PlayStation 2]], [[Xbox (console)|Xbox]] or [[GameCube]] between January 2000 and July 2006 in that country. Combined sales of ''Enter the Matrix'' console releases reached 1.9 million units in the United States by July 2006.<ref name=nextgensales2>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028115051/http://www.next-gen.biz/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3537&Itemid=2&pop=1&page=1 |url=http://www.next-gen.biz/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3537&Itemid=2&pop=1&page=1 |title=The Top 100 Games of the 21st Century |author1=Campbell, Colin |author2=Keiser, Joe  |date=July 29, 2006 |work=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]] |archive-date=October 28, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Worldwide, the game sold 5{{nbsp}}million units.<ref name="gamesindustry"/>