MGS4 hits almost half a million in Japan; PS3 sales increase 700% |
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How popular is Hideo Kojima's baby in Japan? Well, if launch week sales figures are enough to go by, then you're probably looking at the grand daddy (sans the accelerated aging, of course) of them all. Solid Snake's last mission is made up of epic win!
Famitsu reports the sales figures of Metal Gear Solid 4, for the four-day period of the game on retail from June 12 to 15 in Japan. Tally up those score sheets, because Guns of the Patriots clocks at 476,334 copies sold. This number encompasses all versions of the game (i.e. the regular edition, special edition, and the two PS3 bundles).
Doing the math, that's about over a hundred thousand copies sold per day. And to think, all of this despite MGS4's launch events being cancelled in Tokyo.
With MGS4's first week's sales (let alone just four days of its first week!), Konami's powerhouse has already achieved the title of being the best selling PS3 game in Japan.
Now, here's another thing that's quite interesting: PS3 hardware sales have likewise gone up. If Media Create's report last week had 10,856 PS3 units sold (with almost every week prior to that wavering anywhere around the 10k-mark), this week, the numbers from Enterbrain have revealed a 700% boost in PS3 sales.
For the period of June 9 to 15, the PS3 has sold 77,208 units! Now that's one heck of a solid snake spike! Last week, based on Media Create's numbers, the top-notcher was the PSP at 62,016. Clearly, the PS3 has indeed surpassed hardware sales of all the other consoles for the week.
So come check back on us in a few days when we get the final tally of hardware and software sales across all the platforms in Japan. You guys can probably already assume who will be on top.
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watch and see
And well deserved.
MGS4 = Jesus.
I seriously hope this trend will continue. What the PS3 really needs is some help from Nintendo-infested Japan.
japan finally felt like playing real games for a change instead of messing around with that bs wii
Solid Jesus? Or Jesus Snake?
On top on hardware sales. Now, they have kiddy games but the thing is that most of the those games are now family oriented like Wii Sport and Wii Fit. Even my boss who is 38 bought one for him and his wife, not the kids just HIM and HIS wife so figure that out! Good marketing too. However, PS3 will be up soon MGS4 is just the start.
haha
O_O 700%... And that's in Japan. A lot of people already have PS3s in Japan... I wonder what it is going to be in America.
yup messing around
Metal Gear Solid better bump the Wii out of first place just for a day. I hate my Wii, it's just a bunch of tangled cords.
results are usually given by NPD Group. they publish their findings on a per month basis, so it's gonna be a while yet before we see them. Probably early July. Can't wait! ^_^
i couldn't have said it better
well... he is a Big Boss, so to speak. ^_^
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