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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.

MGS4 Sells 300,000 Copies on First Day in Japan


Written by: - Contributing Editor


  1. Avatar of Annie

    #1 by Annie on June 13th, 2008 [ 0 Points ]

    Looks like there’s a lot more awareness. First day MGS4 is almost as much as first week for the others!

  2. Avatar of Eddie

    #2 by Eddie on June 13th, 2008 [ 37586 Points ]

    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.

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    #3 by Segitz on June 13th, 2008 [ 1450 Points ]

    Haha, and I was one of the lucky 25000 who got a European LE :P Take that bitches :D

  4. #4 by John on June 16th, 2008

    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…


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