June 17, 2008 - Metal Gear Solid 4 broke records in its first week of sales in Japan, quickly becoming the best selling PS3 title yet over there.

Famitsu.com reports that the game sold 476,334 units over its first few days of release. This figure is split across all variations of the game, including the standard edition, the special edition, and the two hardware bundles.

MGS4 caused quite the boost for PlayStation 3 hardware sales. While the system was struggling to reach 10,000 units in a given week, MGS4 caused a sales spike to 77,208 units.

The site sourced data from parent company Enterbrain, whose latest tracking data includes the first four days of the game's release, from June 12 to June 15.

Source : IGN.com

Nice :D

very nice HArdware boost,,,,

again let's hope it stays above 15 thousands for the rest of the year


one question what were the sales in opening week for MGS2 and MGS3 games?

MGS2 : (11/29/2001)

MGS3 : (12/16/2004)

Wow. Very nice hardware boost.

I said about a year ago that install base doesn't make a big difference to sales of a game like MGS4. It seems I was right. MGS4 had a bigger first meek than MGS2, even on a third of the install base.

Very good performance, for Japan the game so far performs much better than I expected. I think the perfect scores from the 4 Famitsu reviewers helped considerably.

The game in Europe (no Spain data) and North America so far seems to perform about as expected.

A very good hardware sales revival, about on par as expected. But IMO a slimline PS3 and Final Fantasy willl really start to get the PS3 rolling for Japan.

Wow, really great sales for MGS4 in Japan. HW should be #1 overall for the week (above the PSP)

So is MGS4 the highest selling PS3 title in Japan? According to VGC #'s it would just be slightly behind Minna no Golf 5(though just barely) What are Famitsu #'s for that game?

WOW @ HW boost.....

Sony must release the 80GB indefinitely in Japan.Its absolutely neccesary.