Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Ships Over Three Million Copies Worldwide, Matches MGS4

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CosmicSex said:

Solid-Stark said:

CosmicSex said:

Well that was already decided before it went on sale if these are just shipments.  Sales, which include digital copies, probably overshaddow MGS 4.

Remember VGC only recorded 1.8 million sales for MGS4 week one from a 3 million unit shipment.  I think its safe to say that The PS4 version has probably passed that. 

But that was 3m on one platform. Here we have 3m across five platforms. Sold through can be the same or just over 2m, but again, across five platforms.

But thats the point.  Sold through can be any number.  Total sales can exeed shipments with digital downloads.  Sold through could even be less than with PS3.  It could be anything that you can logically explain.  THis announcement only tellss us that they put 3 million copies into the wild.  I mean we don't even know the shipment breakdown.  We just know that the the PS4 version sold more than every other platform... and probably combined several times.   If you lump the PS4 and PS3 sales together, the other platforms barely even register.   

Highly unlikely for any game to do that on console, non have done that that I know of, so no chance. With that said, seeing as how it is only launch there would still be a margin of soldthrough and shipped. Again across five platforms, we are looking at most 2.5m between sold through and digital downloads. PS4 can be 50-60% of this (1.25-1.5m).

All IMO. And we speak on launch. Numbers can be updated again, if like Witcher 3 just 2 weeks! So then it will be passed the MGS4 first week mark.