Konami MGS4 has sold 4.75M copies (To Retailers)

[outlawauron]

koffieboon said:

outlawauron said:

Rhonin the wizard said:

@outlawauron

Got anything to back up that 95-97%?

@Solid_Raiden

The majority of those games could be MGS4, that doesn't change the fact that the number is not just for MGS4.

Games that I think are included in the number:

Metal Gear Solid Touch - it was launched in March, so it should be covered there.

Metal Gear Online

Metal Gear Solid Mobile

Metal Gear Online sold 3k in Japan, which is the only region it was released in disc form.

They didn't ship any copies of MGS Touch or MGS Mobile.

And I did estimate MGS4's shipments. 95% of the sales would be 4.5 million.

Well, that estimation isn't based on anything. The only information that gives any kind of idea about the breakdown is in Konami's presentation material for the end of Q1 fiscal year 2008. Here they mentioned Metal Geat Solid shipping over 3 million copies when the complete shipment for the Metal Gear series was 3.94 million.

This to me is an indication there was still a significant amount of other games within that total shipment number. Because I don't see any reason for Konami to say over 3 million if in fact it is only just shy of 4 million. They would simply be downplaying the performance of their own game towards their shareholders, which doesn't make any sense.

The Essiential Collection is the only notable that would have gotten any decent number of shipments. PO Plus would have also gotten a decent amount as well.

We know that MGS4 shipped over 4 million months ago. I don't see why it's difficult to see a ~4.5 million shipment for MGS4.