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Forums - Sales Discussion - MGS4 shipped 3.94m as of June 30, 2008

Yakuzaice on 05 August 2008
leatherhat said:

I'm pretty sure vgchartz doesn't include MGS4 sales from the bundle

They do.



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FishyJoe on 05 August 2008

Another thing to consider is that shipped can mean anything that gets sold to retailers. So that number could include other shipments beside just the first day/week physical shipments.



kber81 on 05 August 2008
gebx said:
They can ship as many as they want...

lol Actually they ship as many as retailers want. They want because they sell...



Munkeh111 on 05 August 2008
NJ5 said:
Munkeh111 said:
While it may still only be just over 3m shipped, that was when MGS 4 had sold just over 2m, so I still think it is off


Around 2.2-2.3 million going by VGC. Why do you say so, do you think MGS4 was sold out at many stores back then, so that shipped is near sold?

 

 

I dont know, but 1m is not close



Zucas on 05 August 2008

Yea looking at what The Source says the 3.94 million numbers isn't for MGS4, but the entire Metal Gear Series in this quarter. Now it's assumable the majority is MGS4 but that doesn't mean you can say its 3.94. That would just be lying.

So from hereon out, MGS4 shipments are between 3-3.94 million as of the end of June 30, 2008.



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Munkeh111 on 05 August 2008

Actually in the US, all the bundles were sold out throughout June after launch



Gobias on 05 August 2008
Zucas said:

So from hereon out, MGS4 shipments are between 3-3.94 million as of the end of June 30, 2008.

 

Pretty much sums up the thread, lol.



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DTG on 05 August 2008
kowenicki said:
DTG said:
This site has always been heavily biased against MGS. They have both MGS1 and MGS2 undertracked by millions when every official source states otherwise.

 

Enlighten us all with these 'official' sources and their figures please.

 

Official konami statement: http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/webpages/metalgearsolid3x21x05x03

Both the Metal Gear Solid 2 documentary and MGS blu ray documentary state official numbers to be 7 million for MGS2 and 6 million for MGS1.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/the-legacy-of-metal-gear-solid

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/29/metal-gear-solid-4-producer-says-game-needs-to-sell-a-million-co/

MGS more than 6.6 million http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/adventure/metalgearsolid2sonsol/news.html?sid=2847978

And dont start with shipped vs sold, these games are so old that there aren`t 2 million extra unsold copies lying around stores. This site is just biased against Metal Gear.



KatinJin on 05 August 2008
TheSource said:

What the hell is wrong with N4G? Konami says it shipped 'more than 3m worldwide'. Pretending to know that number is 3.94 is nonsense. See for yourself - its on page 4:

http://www.konami.co.jp/zaimu/0806/english/supplemental.pdf

 

 I'm glad someone is keeping the numbers straight, heh. Thread should be locked really as it is nothing more than false information.



Zucas on 05 August 2008
Gobias said:
Zucas said:

So from hereon out, MGS4 shipments are between 3-3.94 million as of the end of June 30, 2008.

 

Pretty much sums up the thread, lol.

 

Just doing my job.

I'm just tired of people reading other people's versions of a new story and posting it here.  I mean just leads to too much falsehoods and personal opinions from the others writing the article instead of just analyzing the actual news story and going from there.  Thus we'll get something like this saying MGS4 shipped 3.94 million as of that timeframe when really looking at the news story it didn't. 

But I guess as long as these kinda things don't infect the official news stories here we should be fine.