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[Eddie-Griffin]

The Metal Gear series has now sold over 59.3 million copies

Half a million Metal Gear games were sold between the end of June and the end of September, Konami has revealed.

www.metalgearinformer.com

Total sales of the Metal Gear series have surpassed 59.3 million copies as of the end of September 2022, Konami has confirmed alongside their latest financial report. The number is up 0.5 million from their previous figure, meaning half a million Metal Gear games were sold in the past three months, between the end of June and the end of September.


Unfortunately, several of the main games remain unavailable since Konami removed them from digital storefronts one year ago due to licensing issues.

Maybe a new Metal Gear game or collection/remake is coming given I doubt Konami won't notice that 500k sales jump in MGS sales and leave it to waste.

Also, I like how Konami is pretending all those PES/Winning Eleven games were titled eFootball and are acting like eFootball has been an established series with over 100 million sold. Gotta trick those investors.

 

[ACESHIGH]

Release the Legacy collection on modern platforms... FFS

 

[feynoob]

Release the Legacy collection on modern platforms... FFS

I need one now.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Holy shit at the e football series sales these Konami people are taking the piss get the fuck outta here you dossers

 

[feynoob]

Holy shit at the e football series sales these Konami people are taking the piss get the fuck outta here you dossers

It makes sense. Efootball was going toe to toe against fifa, and sometimes even better than fifa.

They just butchered the series on their last installment. They shouldn't have went f2p.

 

[blastprocessor]

Konami asleep.

 

[Chiggs]

Just like with the Gears numbers, these figures aren't that impressive AT ALL.

I hope we're done with Metal Gear Solid.

 

[skyfall]

They delisted the mgs hd collection a while ago due to a licensing issue, hope they get that sorted soon.

 

[Deerock71]

GTA V spits on the entire franchise from on high.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Metal Gear might not be viable as a AAA franchise with numbers like this.

Really needs to have a competent reboot of Metal Gear or Metal Gear Solid.

 

[Thirty7ven]

It makes sense. Efootball was going toe to toe against fifa, and sometimes even better than fifa.

They just butchered the series on their last installment. They shouldn't have went f2p.

Efootball is NOT Pro evolution.

 

[Yoboman]

"Lets make pachinko games instead"

 

[Yoboman]

Metal Gear might not be viable as a AAA franchise with numbers like this.

Really needs to have a competent reboot of Metal Gear or Metal Gear Solid.

The vast majority of those would have been across the mainline games. I doubt the spin offs and metal gear games contributed more than a couple million

They likely average around 8-10 million for the 5 mainline games

 

[Badlucktroll]

I think Metal Gear is the only Konami IP that Sony would want to own. I would suggest making a reimagining of Metal Gear 1 and 2 starring young solid snake as a basic open world action game.

 

[adamsapple]

Seems kinda low for such a long-lived franchise ..

 

[Chiggs]

Seems kinda low for such a long-lived franchise ..

Not seems...IS.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Series deserves a lot more sales.

 

[RaduN]

Well deserved. Probably the best selling niche franchise ever.

 

[Mexen]

MGS Revival… depends on Silent Hill’s success.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

The vast majority of those would have been across the mainline games. I doubt the spin offs and metal gear games contributed more than a couple million

They likely average around 8-10 million for the 5 mainline games

They top out at 6-7 million even running multiplatform. Without Kojima that number drops tremendously.

Konami should sell.

 

[GenericUser]

Also Konami: lets abandon the franchise and never speak of it again.

 

[ZoolNL]

That’s one third of Gta5…

 

[SSfox]

Calling 60 millions for a series with 5 main games... LOW

MUH GTAV sold better MUH

Lmao at the level of comments

Anyway, best gaming franchise of ALL TIME

 

[Yoboman]

They top out at 6-7 million even running multiplatform. Without Kojima that number drops tremendously.

Konami should sell.

I'd say more they aren't that transparent with the numbers. MGS5 sales were only a few months post release

But yeah it's dead without Kojima

 

[Roufianos]

Metal Gear might not be viable as a AAA franchise with numbers like this.

Really needs to have a competent reboot of Metal Gear or Metal Gear Solid.

You can't be serious, the mainline games have sold 7m or so each, more than enough for a healthy profit.

Especially as the series always received zero advertising.

 

[Negotiator101]

Seems kinda low for such a long-lived franchise ..

MGS2 sold over 7 million that's a nice number, the others are obviously lower but decent enough.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

You can't be serious, the mainline games have sold 7m or so each, more than enough for a healthy profit.

Especially as the series always received zero advertising.

Sony dropped Days Gone after it sold like 8 million copies and that was exclusive. AAA games are extremely expensive to make and to market.

And there is no belief that a MGS6 would sell anywhere close to 7 million copies without Kojima.

 

[TGO]

Seems kinda low for such a long-lived franchise ..

Not really given the how many mainline games there really are.
Don't count the first two and the spin offs because we know they didn't do millions.
59million across 5 games is AAA territory considering the last game was released almost a decade ago.

 

[adamsapple]

Not really given the how many mainline games there really are.
Don't count the first two and the spin offs because we know they didn't do millions.
59million across 5 games is AAA territory considering the last game was released almost a decade ago.

There's 9 mainline games (10 if you count Twin Snakes as one). Phantom Pain's last reported sales figure is 6m, 1/10th of the total sales

Rising Revengeance and HD Collection probably sold more than most of the mainline games I reckon.

 

[REDRZA MWS]

Just like with the Gears numbers, these figures aren't that impressive AT ALL.

I hope we're done with Metal Gear Solid.

 

[TGO]

There's 9 mainline games (10 if you count Twin Snakes as one). Phantom Pain's last reported sales figure is 6m, 1/10th of the total sales

Rising Revengeance and HD Collection probably sold more than most of the mainline games I reckon.

Let's be honest here, MGS never become what it is until MGS1, few people got GZ because it was a prologue and Peace walker was a PSP game.
The majority of sales came from MGS1/2/3/4/Phantom Pain and the HD Collection
For the time the numbers those games did was AAA numbers.
I think a new "Good" MGS will do big numbers.
But it's been dormant for too long to compare it with other games with high sales fairly.
Same with Silent Hill, the remake will probably sell more then any Silent Hill has in the past.
God of War series has sold over 50 million over 7 games?
And that had no break in the limelight and started when games was selling in the millions

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I want MGS 4 for Nintendo switch

 

[TheGodfather07]

Some of you forget that 7m-8m was the peak for many games back then. Even zelda and Mario would top out at that figure. There were very few games that would break the 10m barrier them days. It was only a few games like halo, Gran turismo and GTA.

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

Just like with the Gears numbers, these figures aren't that impressive AT ALL.

I hope we're done with Metal Gear Solid.

Gears had 6 main games, Metal gear has 8 or 9 with two revised releases for 2 and 3, 3 collections, 30 spin-offs (probably more) and 1 or 2 remakes, I find Gears with 5 main games and 1 remake during the low of last gen for Xbox One to be pretty impressive since the average for the main games seems to be 7 million copies,

 

[Roufianos]

Sony dropped Days Gone after it sold like 8 million copies and that was exclusive. AAA games are extremely expensive to make and to market.

And there is no belief that a MGS6 would sell anywhere close to 7 million copies without Kojima.

Oh please, Colin Moriarty spoke to the Days Gone leads and they said it was the reception, not the sales that turned Sony off.

MGSV cost between 80 to 100m to make, even if Konami sold each copy for an average of $30, they'd double their money.

 

[dotnotbot]

Some of you forget that 7m-8m was the peak for many games back then. Even zelda and Mario would top out at that figure. There were very few games that would break the 10m barrier them days. It was only a few games like halo, Gran turismo and GTA.

Exactly, those were different times. Comparing to GTA V is silly.