MGS4 Japan --- First day sales

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darthdevidem01 on 13 June 2008

NJ5 didn't hate on the game....stop getting insecure people

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brute on 13 June 2008

thats alot for first day sales

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Riachu on 13 June 2008

MGS4 is doing very well in Japan considering the relatively small userbase of the PS3 there. I can't imagine how well it must have done in America and Europe since the series has always been more popular in the West.

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bardicverse on 13 June 2008

NJ5 said:

bardicverse said:
I could believe such numbers being true for 1st week, I expected 800k for MGS4 first week and maybe 20-30k ps3s sold. We'll see when we get official numbers in.

I'm not so sure about it breaking records, as MGS games are known to have pretty poor legs. Time will tell.

Let's see what the official tally is from VGChartz. =)

Wait... You expected MGS4 to almost catch the other MGS games in a single week??

Given that MGS4 is probably one of the top most anticipated games, and the PS3 having over a million units sold in Japan (with those owners being "core" gamers), I don't think it's a far fetched thought. People flock to the big games right away, leaving few sales left afterwards, because everyone who wants the game already bought it. Heavily frontloaded with weak legs.

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DragonLord on 13 June 2008

NJ5 said:

BengaBenga said:

DragonLord said:

I agree that MGS4 has HUGE development cost, but I think the rumors of $75 million are probably wrong. Most people say that KZII is one of the most expensive developments ever and it's not even close to running that high. Original reports were that KZ2 was suppose to cost around $30 million but because of poor management could end up being even more than that (some predict double--but that's still just rumor). Most say it will end up as the most expensive game ever created dethroning Shenmue.

But I guess Konami is the only one that knows its cost at this point, so who knows?

Eitherway, MGS4 was expensive and it will take a lot of games to make a profit, even if Sony absorbed some of the cost (such as marketing $$$, etc.)

FYI: GTA IV was $ 100 million.

Yeah, no way MGS4 cost $20-30 million. There were even reports of 200 people working on the game at the same time.

$20-30 million is the budget of your average PS360 game, not a mega production like MGS4.

Where did I say that MGS4 only cost $20 million? I didn't. (My personal GUESS would be around $50 million) I just said that I didn't think it cost $75 million. Just my opinion...I could be wrong, but I'm just saying that most rumors have been penciling KZ2 in at double its original budget (which was only $30M, making it over $60M). And by the way, KZ2 and GT5 are both rumored to have 200+ people working on their development...not that unusual on high profile games.

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brute on 13 June 2008

Riachu said:
MGS4 is doing very well in Japan considering the relatively small userbase of the PS3 there. I can't imagine how well it must have done in America and Europe since the series has always been more popular in the West.

its probably doing the best in europe

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