Acording to an article on IGN due to high production costs mgs 4 would need to move 1 million sales on the first day. Now i'm wondering if this is even possible. What are some of you're thoughts on the matter?

Uhh... confirmed misinterpretation.

Anyhoo, no.

1 mil first week.

I think it is possible anyway as the game is pretty hyped!

It would need to have some good take-up in Japan to do so though, and that may not happen! I think 500,000 from both the US and the EU first week isn't totally out of the question!

I mean GT5:P managed 400,000 on week one in the EU and that was only a 'demo' as people call it, and this is a full game! We will have to just wait and see.

EDIT: Never noticed first day... no hope in hell for that! First week = yes! 

Kojima himself said that months ago. Anyway, if the pre-orders are around 400k ww, then it should be able to do 1 mil ww.

Yeah, I think this question is kind of obvious. Yes, it will. Worldwide, that is.

@ Machina

That's the same thing I don't get.

Why does day 1 matter so much? That's why the quote doesn't sit well with me.

Did they take out a massive 60 million dollar loan that's due June 13th or what?

This was just a mistranslation, but I think it is possible. I'm guessing at least 700k on day 1.

Fist day= no
First Week= yes

I dont get where IGN got that ass number but how does that make any sense? 1000000 day 1 or day 30 is still 1000000.Im sure that the game will make a good profit, but I do not think it will happen as soon as Konami would like.

Apparently the one-million statement was incorrect or something.

Do we count pre-orders as well? If so, then the answer is most likely yes. Otherwise it's probably no.