I had a huge argument with a class mate today over the sales of Metal Gear Solid versus Smash brothers. Obviously being the Smash fan that I am said the Brawl would definately sell more. Then he told me crazy facts about metal gear 3 that I didn't believe: like in Japan alone MG3 sold 7 million. I called shinanagins on that figure.

Anyways, what do you guys think? Brawl of MGS4. also if anyone could give me WW figures for both Melee and MGS3 I would appriciate it. The ones in the database appear to be way off for Melee so course I questioned the MGS3 numbers. 

Gonna go with Brawl having more sales than MGS4 because of a larger install base and it's vast popularity in Japan which MGS series doesn't have as much of.

Melee: 7.08 Million copies sold

Metal Gear Solid 3: 3.96Million copies sold.

Metal gear 1: 5.59 million copies sold

Current SSBB sales: About 2.7M (after 10 or so weeks in Japan, and 1 day in USA)

SSBB might sell double of MGS 4, is what I think.

I saw brawl will beat it over all. But i think sales with MGS4 will be good. Heck i might pick up a ps3 with the bundle with mgs4.

On wikipedia they have mgs3 at 3.7 million and melee 7.08. dont know how right those numbers are.

brawl. Past game sold more than MGS past games and a much much larger install base......this isnt even debatable.

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 That's what I tought. This guy is obviously an idiot. He seems to think that Japan has a super hard-on for Metal Gear Solid games. 

I made a bet with him of $25 that Brawl would destroy MGS4 in sales. I doubt he's going to pay up though. 

It's ridicules to even think that MGS4 will sell more than SSBB. Don't get me wrong I loved and beat MGS, MGSTS, and MGS2 but they decrease in sales each game. The MGS games are more of movies then actual gameplay and with the new MGS4, I have no doubt in my mind that you will only play about 6 hours total.

For a comparison of Japan:

N64 Smash: 1.9M - 49th best selling game in Japan ever.

Melee: 1.4M - 82nd best selling game in Japan ever.

Brawl: 1.5M - 67th best selling game in Japan ever.

MGS 2: 844K - 187th best selling game in Japan ever.

MGS 3: 815K - 193rd best

MGS 1: 780K

And PS3 has 1/13 of the userbase of the PS2, and it won't increase to more than 1/5 probably.