MGS4 Sells 300K in One Day in Japan
According to Media Create, MGS4 has sold 300,000 copies from its first day on sale in Japan, not including the PS3/MGS4 bundle.
First day sales:
Metal Gear Solid 4 - 300.000.
Normal Edition - 130.000.
Limited Edition - 170.000 .
If you compare 1st day sales of MGS4 with 1st week sales of previous MGS games in Japan, you will see some interesting numbers:
Previous MGS’s first week Sales
1st week/LTD
MGS: 317,000 / 706,000 (45% of total sales occurred in the 1st week)
MGS2: 457,000 / 798,000 (57% of total sales occurred in the 1st week)
MGS3: 487,000 / 820,000 (59% of total sales occurred in the 1st week)
According to the latest Media Create numbers, 2,079,374 PS3s are currently in Japanese homes. It will be very interesting to see how well the MGS4 PS3 bundle does.
(after 3 weeks... but for 23.5€ I cannot remotely complain!)
So merry Christmas!
June 13th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Looks like there’s a lot more awareness. First day MGS4 is almost as much as first week for the others!
June 13th, 2008 at 8:22 am
VGchartz (I know I know) estimated that USA and Europe will sell 750k each respectively. That puts the estimated grand total around 1.8 million sold first day. Not bad at all. Unfortunately I’m one of those poor saps that can’t get into this game and I really want to like it.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Haha, and I was one of the lucky 25000 who got a European LE
Take that bitches 
June 16th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Yeah ehandlr, I’m a bit like you. This is a bit like soccer, many people seem to enjoy it immensely, but none of the MGS ever got me hooked. Looks like this one won’t change anything…