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Metal Gear Solid 4 boosted Konami's PS3 game sales 57%

August 05, 2008 in News comments 3

Metal Gear Solid 4 has sold almost 4 million copies and has made a big difference to Konami's sales charts. The chart on the left shows Konami's software sales for the April to June quarter from 2007, the chart on the right shows Konami's software sales for the April to June quarter from 2008. Metal Gear Solid 4 helped boost Konami's PS3 sales from 1.3% to 57.3%

Here's an intresting little tidbit regarding the percentage:
Konami is represented by the goroawase number "573". "Five" in Japanese is go, changed to the voiceless form ko; "7" in Japanese is nana shortened to na; "3" in Japanese is mittsu, shortened to mi; "573" = ko-na-mi.

The chart on the left represents Konami's video game software sales for the April to June quarter from 2007. The chart on the right? The same quarter from 2008, the quarter in which Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was released. The Kojima Productions game helped boost PlayStation 3 game sales from 1.3% to a solid 57.3% of Konami's total game sales, with MGS4 representing about 56.8% of that.
Miss Razz via kotaku.com »
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    Zero and X Aug 5, 08
    Good for Konami! Lets hope they use that cash to make a new 3d Castlevania, minus the repetetive backgrounds hopefully.
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    Ultima_Weapon Aug 6, 08
    Mittsu means 3 objects, san is 3 in Japanese.
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      Miss Razz Aug 6, 08
      It's based off the goroawase (word-play) number substitutions, so "mittsu" is fine.

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