"MGS4 has sold more than 4.5 million units since its July release. More importantly, due to its exclusivity, it helped up the number of Playstation 3 units sold. The PS3 went about selling 10,000 units a week; this shot to 77,000 in MGS4’s first week. The title has a 94% Metacritic rating, and numerous full-score ratings from sites and publications."

http://www.split-screen.com/2009/01/04/the-defining-event-of-2008/

Passing Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (4.01 million), Metal Gear Solid 4 is the third best selling MGS game, another 1 million shipped and it will be the best selling Metal Gear Solid game. Could happen.

1		Metal Gear Solid		Konami	14,330	N/A	5.59m	05th Sep 08
2		Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty		Konami	16,941	N/A	5.58m	29th Oct 08
3		Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater		Konami	27,896	N/A	4.01m	15th Dec 08
4		Metal Gear Solid 4 (SHIP 4.5 MILLION)		Konami	703,406	9.5	3.71m	29th Oct 08

It could

Your titles says "ships" but in article is says "sold". Anyway what ever when it comes to numbers. MGA4 pawns either way.

Good Numbers for "the best game ever". So like 1 in 5 PS3 owners owns MGS4

Yeh but it's obviously not sold so they must mean sold to retailers. So I'm calling it shipped, so that I don't have a thousand people in here yelling at VG Chartz for having wrong numbers.

It will.

im pretty sure it will pass its predecessors

It got some decent boosts thanks to christmas....when it becomes a greatest hit, it should see another boost, especially in Japan

Wow, MGS2 is undertracked! Didn't the game sell like 8 million? I doubt the Xbox version sold 3 million copies...