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jarrod on 28 January 2010
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axumblade said:
jarrod said:
axumblade said:
Soriku said:

Some more figures:

MGS4 is over 1.3m, KZ2 is over 800k.

For reference VGC has MGS4 at 2 mil, KZ2 at 1.01 mil in the NAs.

NPD Doesn't count bundles but VGC does. So the 2 million seems accurate enough.

No way 700k MGS4 bundles were sold.  Maybe half that.  Bundles + standalone pushed MGS4 to a million in June iirc, but the bundles were sold out almost immediately because the 80GBs were the last units w/PS2 backwards compatibility.

Edit:

Not really. I work retail. We sat on the Metal Gear Solid IV bundles for a while with the systems. Also accounting for the holiday bundle, which was also extremely limited and then saying Canada and Mexico sold the rest of the 700k is not far fetched at all considering how hyped of a game Metal Gear Solid IV was.

Sorry for rewriting that but it probably only seemed like they lasted forever because we kept getting replinishment of them for a while. It was well over a month (probably 2-3 months) we got the systems in. Plus a few randomly after they were "discontinued."

I still find the idea of 700k US MGS4 bundles hugely unlikely.  I know they had a small 2nd shipment in July too, but even still it'd have meant a 3:4 sales ratio with the standalone for 2008.  Frankly, I doubt more than (max) 400k bundles were even produced given how spotty availability was even before launch.

Canada/Mexico could account for some difference (probably 8-12%) but even still I'd imagine VGC has overtracked MGS4 somewhat.  Not a 700k difference clearly, but this still doesn't match up.