MGSV: The Phantom Pain has shipped 3 million units worldwide
- Thread starter Alo0oy
- Start date
Interficium
Banned
It'll probably shock you even more that no Metal Gear title has ever sold more than 8 million.
Hopefully this will be the first to reach it.
Pathfinder
Member
Just picked it up a couple days ago. It's an amazing game.
And I love how Kojima's name is all over it. Konami may be able to take it off of the box and off advertising, but they can't remove it from the game itself, and that's what matters.
Bravo.
And I love how Kojima's name is all over it. Konami may be able to take it off of the box and off advertising, but they can't remove it from the game itself, and that's what matters.
Bravo.
texhnolyze
Banned
Yeah, it'll be a safe bet to assume that there are already 500k MGSV owners on Steam right now.
I am positive that it will pass that.
Has shipped ever counted digital? I impulse bought this staring at the PSN store and damn what a beautiful game. Would love a nice TPS open world co-op shooter(non stealth) where everyone fights there way in an epic gun fight to get to the chopper.
Just calling in a support chopper to run to the LZ is so memorable when you have tons of guys gunning for you
Just calling in a support chopper to run to the LZ is so memorable when you have tons of guys gunning for you
What games have you been playing?
Isn't that like between 5 to 7 million dollars?
SkeptiMism
Member
I don't know about the budget of the game, but if it only breaks even it's not a very good investment. The more a company invests money on something, the more they expect to get from it. Simply being profitable doesn't mean much.
Just saying that as a general statement. It'll continue to sell obviously, though games generally have a tendency to be rather front loaded.
KingdomHeartsFan
Member
PC (steam) sales are not apart of the 3m, it says SHIPPED, that means it doesn't include digital sales.
Can't wait for Tom Clancy's Wildlands.
Steam is not going to even count for half of MGSV's sales.
It's the only one we have any figures for and also people want more Japanese developers to support the platform.
I find "not even half" to be a strange choice of words for a single platform out of 5.
No, PC numbers are more available than anything else.
Not really. MGS , while it's very popular. It still target a very specific audience. Just like RE. Only people who like this type of game will buy it. It is not universally appeal to broader audience, like GTA or others. So it's sale number is understandable.
I wonder if the open world approach will result in more sales. It seems to be what the cool kids like at the moment and to be fair, it is one of the better open world gameplay experiences out there.
It's an absolutely horrible open world experience. It's a great gameplay sandbox, but NONE of that happens in the open world.
who cares ? MGS fanbase is mostly on playstation
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Not a bad start for it's 1st week on sale. I'm sure it will sell quite a bit more too. Awesome game, I'm hooked, played it all weekend for about 10 hours and only 3% complete, just keep finding random stuff to do and explore between the 1st few missions, and only just unlocked base building.
Palette Swap
Member
Hoping this does well enough for someone to have the weird idea of making a Substance version that actually finishes the damn game.
GhostTrick
Banned
So ? I mean, there's like 5 platforms in which the game is getting released. What you're saying has nothing to do with what you quoted.
The game is approaching 500k on Steam... considering the higher revenue for digital copies, I doubt they regret their move considering they sold a lot of full price copies. Just remember that a digital copy is worth, at the same price, more than two times the revenue of a physical one.
GhostTrick
Banned
You're complaining about people talking about PC numbers... which is because its the only accurate numbers we have for now.
Then answer who cares ? Why do you even ask in the first place ? If you want to play kiddy console war, you're in the wrong place, sir.
Yeh, series has been slipping last few years + Fifa sells over 10m with each installment. In fact waaay over 10m. Closer to 15m now.
I love it. Driving around in my jeep, taking over every outpost I see while Kids in America is blaring.
Then again, my favourite place to explore before this was Fallout 3, which apparently makes me weird.
Yeh, series has been slipping last few years + Fifa sells over 10m with each installment. In fact waaay over 10m. Closer to 15m now.
Hoping to see a slight bump on this chart next year with PES improving and FIFA going downhill in the 2015 editions released last year. Not holding my breath though since all I ever see is complaining about licenses now.
Pathfinder
Member
Oh dude, don't start...
The people in the thread that you're in care, clearly. If you don't care, then go elsewhere.
"We" care because it's the only other solid data point outside of knowing how many was shipped, which tells us nothing of the platform breakdown.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Even when PES was vastly superior to FIFA, it still sold significantly less. It has always maintained a small but loyal fanbase, its getting back to its best nowadays as well.
well so far I'm more interested about ps3 or xbox one numbers
Yeah, the worst part is that PES now has a reputation because if you look at where the bump is for FY 2008, that game was horrible that year so a lot of people exposed to it might still look at it in that way. They were just lucky that FIFA had been sucking even longer at that point.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Yea I think people expected something special that year, what with the move to the new consoles and how good the previous few had been. That was probably the single biggest drop in quality I have ever seen in a series (and I'm including DMC 2 and RE6 in that) They should have just put a new lick of paint on PES 6 and updated the roster.
WHAT!!!! Holy shit, I didn't know that, MGS should sell more. I hope TPP will sell at least 10 million at least.
PreyingShark
Member
50 to 70 million, assuming a 1 cent = 1 yen exchange rate. Going by what he said it cost significantly less than 50 mil to make.
That wouldn't have been wise because that was around the time EA finally pulled their finger out of their ass and started making football games that didn't make PES the best by default.
Alex_Mexico
Member
PS3 user here. Having a blast 25 hours in.
And for what it's worth here's my totally anecdotal evidence: at my local game store the tally of preordered versions were PS4 -> PS3 -> XB1 -> X360 dead last with zero.