Gears of War: E-Day reportedly courts over 1.7m Xbox Game Pass players and makes over $37m since launch

Gears of War: E-Day's sales are reportedly lighter than you might expect from one of Xbox's flagship names, but pure sales numbers don't paint a complete picture of the bloody shooter's performance. A sizable chunk of revenue actually came from Game Pass subscribers paying for the game's Premium Edition upgrade. That's according to new estimates from Alinea Analytics' Rhys Elliott, which reports Xbox has sold around 230,000 copies of Gears of War: E-Day since the prequel's advance-access release at the very beginning of the month - with 168,000 of those sales coming from Steam and 62,000 coming from Xbox consoles…