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mibuokami on 19 August 2009
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johnsobas said:
mibuokami said:
johnsobas said:
Hammertime said:
If this was a flop in Japan then what on earth was MGS3????

I'd assume you're talking about 4.  If we go by what some people in this thread are saying Kojima said  he wanted 1 million first day in Japan and it wasn't even close.  Realistically, MGS4 sold almost on par with previous titles in Japan, pretty good.  There's many titles on PS3 that haven't been able to do that in Japan.

I thought the 1 million figure was worldwide?

yea actually i think you're right, although I don't think it got 1 million first day (no real way to prove it i guess).  Having said that judging any game by 1st day sales is silly.  Important thing is that the LTD is high.

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=1297

It sold 1.3 Million according to VGChartz, measuring 1st day sale is limited but still good data, but yes LTD is important which is why a company always try to keep a reasonable projection of lifetime sale to measure revenue and budget accordingly.