So did MGS4 fail to meet expectations?

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chenguo4 said:

Gnizmo said:

chenguo4 said: 

 

Are you gonna ignore the graph I put up? Here it is again:

 Your graph is meaningless really. Allow me to demonstrate why.

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=America&game1=Metal+Gear+Solid+4%3A+Guns+of+the+Patriots+-+PS3&reg2=America&game2=Metal+Gear+Solid+2%3A+Sons+of+Liberty+-+PS2&reg3=America&game3=Metal+Gear+Solid+-+PS&weeks=100

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=Japan&game1=Metal+Gear+Solid+4%3A+Guns+of+the+Patriots+-+PS3&reg2=Japan&game2=Metal+Gear+Solid+2%3A+Sons+of+Liberty+-+PS2&reg3=Japan&game3=Metal+Gear+Solid&weeks=100

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=Japan&game1=Metal+Gear+Solid+4%3A+Guns+of+the+Patriots+-+PS3&reg2=Japan&game2=Metal+Gear+Solid+2%3A+Sons+of+Liberty+-+PS2&reg3=Japan&game3=Metal+Gear+Solid&weeks=100

 Notice how each graph is set-up to compare it against 2 other Metal Gear Solid games, but only one comes back with data. I suspected that the staggered launch was to blame for the graph disparity, but it appears to be a large amount of missing data. The only region we have data for has MGS2 way ahead. I will tool around and see if we have hard data for 3 to compare it with, but 3 was the sales low point I seem to recall.

Eh no need to pull up MGS3, we all know how that one's gonna turn out.

So question, is MGS2's lifetime 5.58 mil vastly undertracked? Or is there just no week to week data?

 

Actually the graph comparing to MGS3 seems to have all data and shows how well MGS4 is crushing MGS3.

Sadly I have no idea on how to include graphs in posts...