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LurkerJ on 20 October 2015
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MGS 4: Sons of liberty Guns of the Patriots

Release date: June 12, 2008

# of sold copies: 774,647 (775k), the best selling game of June 2008

Platforms: PS3 exclusive

Hardware:

  • PS3: 405.5k (Sold for: $399 for the 40gb model & $499 for the 80gb model)
  • The Wii was the best selling homse console that month, moving 666.7k units. (Nintendo DS was the best selling console overall moving 783k units)
  • X360 sold 219,800 (for $349) units that month bring the total X360 sold to 10.5 units (vs 4.9 m for the PS3 & vs 10.9 for the Wii)

 

MGS 5: The Phantom Pain

Release date: September 1, 2015

# of sold copies: <800K (excluding digital & Steam sales), 3rd best game of Sept 2015 based on physical copies sold.  

Digital sales aren't neglibile in this day and age but no availabe data at the moment (MGS 4 wasn't availabe digitally at launch). 

MGS 5: Ground Zeroes was released in March, 2014 and it sold 278k in its first month according to NPD (again, neither digital nor PC numbers are included). Ground Zeroes served as a prologue for MGS 5:The Phantom Pain.

Platforms: PS4, XBO, X360, PS3, PC

Hardware:

  • PS4: 340k (sold for $399)
  • X1: 281k (sold for $350)
  • PS3 + X360: *missing data*