TheRealMafoo on 22 May 2008
jalsonmi said: MGS: 5.59m sales on an install base of 100m MGS2: 5.56m sales on an install base of 120m MGS3: 3.97m sales on an install base of 120m GTAIII: 11.6m sales on an install base of 120m GTA:VC: 14.2m sales on an install base of 120m GTA:SA: 17.1m sales on an install base of 120m GTAIV: 8.1m sales (so far) on an install base of 31.7m (so far) Halo: 6.43m sales on an install base of 24m Halo 2: 8.46m sales on an install base of 24m Halo 3: 7.82m sales (so far) on an install base of 19m (so far) |
While I agree MGS is not going to sell like Halo or GTA (for a Sony exclusive, that's GT's job), I think the numbers above are a little misleading.
When MGS came out, there were not 100m PS1's, and when MGS2 came out, there were not 120 million PS2's