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

Gothic Girl | August 05, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 Company

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.

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Zero and X | August 06, 2008

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 | August 06, 2008

Mittsu means 3 objects, san is 3 in Japanese.
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  Gothic Girl | August 07, 2008
  
  It's based off the goroawase (word-play) number substitutions, so "mittsu" is fine.