Immortal must be crazy. You are comparing sales of MGS games from PS2, when the installed base of that system was well over 30-50million. The Halo3 on the 360 managed that in two months on a system with only about 12million installed units. Where do you get off thinking a system with 10million projected installed units when MGS4 is released is going to sell more than Halo3? You must be out yer mind bOOOy!

Oh, and I don't see how you can include substance in the sales of MGS2, that came out a lot later, and should be considered a completely different game, as I am sure a large chunk of people who bought substance ALREADY bought MGS2. Nice try though.

Not a chance. The PS3 install base isn't even close to large enough.

Online is also separated into another game - so it will lose sales on that.

That's a lame excuse. More people would've bought the Xbox if Halo was worth it. There are plenty of people buying a PS3 just for MGS4. 

If the PS3 had a 100% attach rate for MGS 4, then the sales would be comparative to Halo 3. Anything less is a failure.

Substance is essentially the same game, and the sales on Xbox and PC were mostly people who didn't buy Sons of Liberty on PS2. Halo 2 on PC is also essentially the same, but slightly enhanced. Graphics wise definitely.

Did you get this from Wiki too?

actually sales look like this

MGS 1 - 5.6m

MGS 2 - 5.55m

MGS 3 - 3.95m

Substance And Subsistance = 0.31m

http://vgchartz.com/games/index.php?name=Metal+Gear+Solid&console=&publisher=&genre=&keyword=&order=Sales

Vs

Halo - 6.45m

Halo 2 - 8.4m

Halo 3 - 6.0m

http://vgchartz.com/games/index.php?name=Halo&console=&publisher=&genre=&keyword=&order=Sales

try again, idiot. it may outsell Halo Wars (maybe) it wont touch Halo 3... with 360 now having a larger base than the last gen.

PS3 will have over 10 million users by the time MGS4 comes out in the second Q of 08. Launch sales won't match Halo 3, but overall sales will. And without the hype.