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Degausser on 27 October 2010
Cross-X said:
Degausser said:

 It hasn't done that bad imo. With a decent launch in Japan it should find it's way to 1.2m worldwide ) when all is said and done, which is round about where most games in the genre end up outside of DMC and God of War. Unless Konami were expecting the game to randomly sell as much as DMC despite being a new series (Not new IP) I'd imagine it's just about in line with expectation. 

  Depends on if the holidays help sell a decent amount of copies, it's tracking quite behind Bayonetta but should show stronger legs with holiday sales.

 MGS Rising should do better then MGS4 too, what with the PS3 userbase having grown, the 360 side of things to draw from and MGS4's performance to draw from anyway. 

 If anything is a cause for Konami's concern it should be how far behind PES has fallen from FIFA now - PES2011 already had it's priced slashed in the UK just a week after launch and FIFA continues to take more and more of the market. While I'm sure Konami are still making a pretty penny from these low-cost yearly releases, it's nothing like it was in the PS2 days when FIFA was 'second' football game.

I seriously doubt MGS Rising on PS3 will outsell MGS4. In fact probably PS3, X360 and PC version combined won't outsell MGS4's 5 Mil.

 Hard to call, I think it'll eventually creep to 5M like MGS4 did but it won't happen first year or anything.

 It'll still be a big seller though, no doubt in my mind it'll be a bigger seller in Japan then MGS4 and stuff. Will make Konami a pretty penny, which isn't something you can say about many of their games nowadays lol.



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Galaki on 27 October 2010
NiKKoM said:

Think positive! within 2 weeks it outsold Castlevania Judgement! Think positive!


LOL.

I actually bought Judgement but never bothered to unseal it.



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Mr Puggsly on 27 October 2010

MGS:Risng will definitely sell better. Quite frankly, MGS is far more popular than Castlevania ever was.

Perhaps Castlevania will have decent legs in the long run. It only needs to sell 1.8 million more copies to be a hit!



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Darc Requiem on 27 October 2010
Galaki said:
NiKKoM said:

Think positive! within 2 weeks it outsold Castlevania Judgement! Think positive!


LOL.

I actually bought Judgement but never bothered to unseal it.


I did the same thing with the Klonoa remake. I forgot i had the game until I moved a few months ago.



jarrod on 27 October 2010

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RageBot on 27 October 2010

Castlevania is actually pretty much a no-name series, it just existed for a long time so it is a name that a lot of pepole know.

I think that only one game has sold over a million copies.

On the other hand, MGS is a much bigger brand.



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jarrod on 27 October 2010
RageBot said:

I think that only one game has sold over a million copies.

Yep.  Only Circle of the Moon on GBA sold over a million afaik.  Of course, if we counted ports and rereleases then CV1 (FDS, MSX, NES, GBA, VC) and SotN (PS1, SS, XBLA, PSN) might've done it also?



Seece on 27 October 2010

I think MGS:R will do really well, it's got a massive userbase on PS3 to sell to, and I think it's the kind of game 360 fans will like.

I see the ratio similar to FFXIII



 

jarrod on 27 October 2010
Seece said:

I think MGS:R will do really well, it's got a massive userbase on PS3 to sell to, and I think it's the kind of game 360 fans will like.

I see the ratio similar to FFXIII

I think the ratio will be more in line with something like DMC4.  I think more 360 owners will be open to MGS than FF, if due to theme alone.  Of course, if 360 gets another hands down "inferior version" then that may skew things.



SnesTea on 27 October 2010
NiKKoM said:

Think positive! within 2 weeks it outsold Castlevania Judgement! Think positive!


This. And which Castlevania game is the OP referring to?