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PooperScooper on 26 June 2008
NIKOS_SE said:
taking into account that ps3 has zero piracy i think that mgs4 ltd sales will be over 5 million maybe over 6 million.And in 1-2 years we will see an improved version of mgs4 like with previous mgs4 that will easily sell more than 3 million ,so the whole mgs4 project will end selling more than 8 million

 

 The improved versions only sell like half a million.

5.5 max with the re-release improved version treatment included.



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Lightning08 on 26 June 2008
darthdevidem01 said:
so there are 1.3 million copies sitting on shelves....sorry but Vg chartz has undertracked this game

Not necessarily. This weeks US MGS4 numbers are not in yet.



greenmedic88 on 26 June 2008

Weren't those estimated 1.5m sales over three days due to the Thursday release?

Second week sales should be over a period of 11 days if so.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were some corrections being made over the next couple weeks. I'm waiting until the end of the first month of sales before coming to any immediate conclusions.

2.25m sales WW for the first two weeks wouldn't be a surprise though.



libellule on 26 June 2008

NA numbers say "hi !!!"

WW = NA + PAL + Japan



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cloudy-spikey on 26 June 2008

It is quite impressive achievments , and with 2.4 FW , the replay value will  improve

very much , not even to this game as well with PS3 games, plus increased installed base of PS#.

IMO it wil sell more than 5 million easily, within two months.

If that happens , I am wondering what thel haters will come up with to ruin the party...

 



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Tbone on 26 June 2008

Good then it can reach 4 million by end of 08.



 

Noobie on 26 June 2008
cloudy-spikey said:

It is quite impressive achievments , and with 2.4 FW , the replay value will  improve

very much , not even to this game as well with PS3 games, plus increased installed base of PS#.

IMO it wil sell more than 5 million easily, within two months.

If that happens , I am wondering what thel haters will come up with to ruin the party...

 

 

5 million is a little too overly optimistic..



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Spectrumglr on 26 June 2008
darthdevidem01 said:
so there are 1.3 million copies sitting on shelves....sorry but Vg chartz has undertracked this game

 

not necessarily...for instance we know how many copies where shipped in Italy...and in its 1st week the game (gfk source) sold about half of shipped copies. We also know that attach ratio for the game is similar in Italy and UK (again gfk source)...so we could assume that the pattern could be similar in the rest of the world and thus having 1.3M copies still sitting on the shelves could be prefectly normal.



2008 year end sales (made in January 2008):

44.2 M 27.1 M 20.8 M

jman8 on 26 June 2008

Congrats, Konami. That's worth upwards of $180 million in retail.



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DTG on 26 June 2008

VGchartz creators have an obvious bias against the MGS franchise. Both MGS1 and 2 are 1 and 2 million undertracked respectively (and have not been adjusted despite every source showcasing this disparity) and the MGS3S isn't even tracked. I didn't expect anything but skewed numbers for MGS4 as well.