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Metal Gear Solid 4 has shipped almost four million units!

Tyranitar24 | August 07, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 Company

According to a recent report of Metal Gear Solid 4 sales from Konami, they have shipped 3.94 million copies of the game, almost hitting four million!

This means roughly one PS3 owner out of five has bought the game! MGS4 has started to slow down considerably in Japan; do you think it'll be able to sell five millions units by the end of 2008? PSU does.

Metal Gear Solid 4 has shipped 3.94 million units worldwide, according to a recent sales report from Konami.

We don't know the exact number of copies sold, but about one out of every four or five PS3 owners has purchased Metal Gear Solid 4. Simply put, there's a lot of tactical espionage action going on.

With sales that have started to become slightly sluggish in Japan, will the game reach the lucrative five million sold mark before the end of the year?

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Zeon I | August 08, 2008

The Playstation 3 itself didn't...
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  Silver Mirror | August 08, 2008
  
  You just couldn't leave it alone could you?
  
  I'm happy for Kojima and Konami, they deserve the sales.
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  Final Blade | August 08, 2008
  
  _{Didn't do what?
  
  Anyway im sure it'll reach that mark soon.}
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Seeker X | August 08, 2008

Best game on Earth...

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This means roughly one PS3 owner out of five has bought the game
That's not good enough, at the very LEAST it should be 4.5 out of every 5 owners, for *bleep*'s sake.
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Duality_18 | August 08, 2008

It should be that each ps3 should have 2 copies per ps3 you have.

So 2 ps3's at your house, You should have 4 copies of mgs4.
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Red 9 | August 08, 2008

MGS4 sold around 1M in total within the first few days globally, so I'm not surprised.
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Gutter_Tech | August 08, 2008

so whats that like a million a month?
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  Red 9 | August 08, 2008
  
  Something like that. But I doubt it'll keep that steam. Every game slows down.
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    BlackLabel | August 08, 2008
    
    Of course it wouldn't have, it does equate to that but it would have sold most on day one.
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cheatcodeman11 | August 09, 2008

wow 1 million in a month pretty good sony~!
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Paper Mario Dude | August 09, 2008

I'm sure it would have sold a million in its first week if it had been more hyped.
and whats with advertising? i didnt see ANY commercials for Smash Bros Brawl or MGS4 until after they came out...actually, the first commercial i ever recall seeing for MGS4 was late july.
i asked my friends at school who have PS3s and like the MGS series, they said "when does MGS4 come out? i haven't heard anything about it"
but bravo konami, great game, beautiful graphics. i give your game a 9/10....its not 10/10 because i got sick at the last, 1hour + movie at the end....i had no symtoms of sickness until i got through half of MGS4, turned out i had broncchidus >.<
sony/konami sent me a human virus through mass production!