Some one in Neogaf posted MGS4 latest numbers.

"Current total in Japan is 660,788, 90.1% sell through (Enterbrain, up to 5 October)."

90% sell through mean Konami shipped around 730k in Japan. Even if Konami doesn't ship more (unluckly) MGS4 did quite well. Now lets compare wih other MGS's LTD.

MGS1: 780k

MGS2: 870k

MGS3: 860k

MGS4: 730k

So even with much smaller install base it did quite well.

Yes it did great.

Except it cost 10 times as much.

And its not finished yet!

@DKII

Do you have any sources for that claim. I'll take your word for it, though it would be good if you could provide a link to a source.

wow, so Japan accounts for about 20% MGS4 sales worldwide?
I thought it would be less somehow
nice numbers for 4 months...

Trolling is not allowed. Back up your words or F off.

We don't know this.

Obviously it costed more, but 10x?  That may be a stretch.  And the actual game costs 10 bucks more than it used to, too.

lol, this game shipped almost as much as the 360 userbase in Japan. 

And given the userbase, the title did exceedingly well.

I hope you're kidding here, but I must say I totally miss the humour.

Although the development costs are not known, we do know that they needed 1 million copies sold on launch day to be on track. It's obvious that MGS 4 was much more expensive than any previous MGS and is among the most expensive games ever. The average PS3 game is reported to cost around $20 million, we can minimally double that to get to MGS4 numbers. That excludes advertising.

Konami definitely can't be happy with the sales, cause they don't care about attach rate. I'm sure they made a profit, but I'm sure that when they started the development they budgetted on at least MGS3 level sales.

in before someone says it did terrible because it costs 10 times as much

oh wait im too late