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Metal Gear Solid 4 ships nearly four million worldwide

Posted on August 5th, 2008 at 17:08 EDT

Metal Gear Solid 4 has shipped 3.94 million units worldwide, according to a recent sales report from Konami.

We don't know the exact number of copies sold, but about one out of every four or five PS3 owners has purchased Metal Gear Solid 4. Simply put, there's a lot of tactical espionage action going on.

With sales that have started to become slightly sluggish in Japan, will the game reach the lucrative five million sold mark before the end of the year? We think so. Leave your input in the comments section below.

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posted 5:15pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
1

Snake SNNNAAAAKKKKKEEEEEE go kojima

posted 5:17pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
2

prety amazing for an exclusiv, hope it beats MGS2

posted 5:24pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
3

Great game. I love every second of it.

posted 5:27pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
4

Sells will go up during christmas. I am sure there still is alot of people that did not have the money and would want it for a present.

posted 5:31pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
5
I predict a possible 3.98 million LTD in sales before the end of the year.
posted 5:33pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
6

i might get it for christmas since i dont have it and it is such a good game

posted 5:46pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
7

Theres another thing to remember in about a year you know there will be a Subsistence verson with more content just like all the other MGS games. So theres im shure a good chunck that are just holding off for that.

posted 5:47pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
8
Amazing... Who says exclusives on PS3 don't sell well? Hopefully deveolpers look at these sales numbers and realize its not the system that sales, its the game. Kudos to Kojima and I hope he's happy with the sales because I'm glad he chose PS3 as the system for MGS. @7: Idk if there will be a subsistance, i thought it was said that MGS4 filled the entire Blu-Ray disc, that's why they had totake out the Jap. voice-over work.
posted 5:56pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
9

It will probably get at a min 4.5mil, this is the best game on the market currently! I wonder if Little Big Planet can topple it!

posted 6:11pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
10

 the other 4-5 sobs should get right now, or ill kick them square in the nuts.lol

posted 6:12pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
11
Christmas will bring it to 5 mil.
posted 6:25pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
12

I'd say that it'll sell 5 mil this year.

posted 6:32pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
13

psn id: gingo... mgs was always going to sell well but i think this is even higher than what konami expected especially from an exclusive

posted 7:03pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
14

I told Wylie, MGS4 is going to sell atleast 5 million copies.

posted 7:24pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
15

at least someone have faith in playstation installed base to keep it exclusive other than other people *cough cough square cough* oh excuse me

posted 7:45pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
16

My most favorite PS3 game of all-time.

posted 7:49pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
17
Will it reach 5 million by the end of the year????? well loads of PS3s are sold at around christmas so there's a good chance the noobs will pick up MGS4 soooo yes 5 million at the end of the year easily.
posted 7:51pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
18

Mgs4 was the greatest game to grace this GEN thus far

posted 8:03pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
19

Thats sad,

THATS ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS WHY ALL THIS SPECULATIUON IS ABOUT MGS4 TO 360, CUZ PS3 DOES NOT SELL HUGE AMOUNT OF GAMES.

HALO GOT LIKE 7 MILLION OR SOMETHIN, RIGHT?

posted 8:30pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
20

@ 19...y r u on this site...u fanboy

posted 8:38pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
21
This holiday, it should hit 5m, give it time. Kick a** game thou!! PSN ID- Demented007
posted 8:42pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
22

first i wanna say @19 you sound like a 360 fanboi but i call yall "gurlscouts" nobody here care about halo keep those figures to your self.  now on topic These numbers will pick up. all i can say is those 3 or 4 people missed out on the best game made so far. and they need to pick this up ASAP cause theres not to many games made that good made on a console off than

posted 9:03pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
23

i bet it will go over 5 million, no doubt. best game for ps3 so far imo

posted 9:15pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
24

This game deserved every penny it got so far.

posted 9:16pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
25

@19  Halo has been on the market for how long??

posted 9:24pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
26

im gonna buy it this week :)

posted 9:55pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
27

The best game I've ever had the pleasure of playing deserves no less.

posted 9:56pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
28

dang i'm 1 of em :D yep it will might even beat 6mil

posted 10:00pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
29

@19

 

halo's history so STFU xc0x chearleader...

 

anyways i say 5mill or more.. its only ben out for a month and a half and allready allmost 4 mill.. so we got another 4 months left in this year,so ima go ahead and shoot for 5.5 mill or 6.

 

the greatest story ever told and the greatest game ever made.

and no xbox,or xbox 360 has ever gotten as many 10's as a rating in its greedy chearleading history so booo...yaaaa  mofo's.

posted 10:04pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
30

It is my favorite ps3 game so far as well. Game is just so well put together, story/ gameplay everything I loved. Hideo Kojima is a master of game development, the most innovative. My favorite!

posted 10:12pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
31

@19

You're entitiled to your own opinion, but not many games ship or sell that much so I don't truly understand your point in this. Also flaming the guy will(most likely)  just provoke him into saying something back and before we know it we need to delete comments off of this.

 

Anyway congrats to MGS4 for selling this much, it deserves it.

posted 10:44pm EDT - August 5th, 2008
32

I'm sorry 19, greater sales don't make a greater game.  I'm an avid halo player, literally hours a day, but if given the choice between halo the rest of my life or Metal Gear Solid, Snake wins every time!!!!!!!!!!!  It's a superior game, with superior gameplay, a superior story, superior development and it's just halo's better in every way.

posted 1:33am EDT - August 6th, 2008
33

Update MGS4 with Trophies :D I love this game...

/Rechain


posted 2:46am EDT - August 6th, 2008
34

oh ****! Mis/Mr. 19 is getting told! seems no one likes you! better not come round here anymore!

posted 2:56am EDT - August 6th, 2008
35

best game ever, its so emotional

posted 4:26am EDT - August 6th, 2008
36

great game, not had time to play much recently, but certainly one of the best games i've played in a long while!

posted 4:31am EDT - August 6th, 2008
37

2,6 million are sold so far to customers acording to vgchartz, so i highly doubt it is gonna sell more then MGS2 since that game sold 5 million.

But Since this game is definatly a must have game, i think sales will rise a lot with christmas

posted 5:12am EDT - August 6th, 2008
38

MGS4 deseverves that ammount of sales. Its so good. The graphics are unreal - Proves that the Cell isnt all that hard to work on if you actually try.

posted 5:28am EDT - August 6th, 2008
39

And they said it couldnt be done..

posted 6:35am EDT - August 6th, 2008
40

Hm.. I've got some money, a Dual Shock 3 or MGS4. That is the question.

I think I gonna buy a DS3. Because I gonna sell my SixAxiS and buy two DS3s.

I'm saving money for Resistance 2, LittleBigPlanet and Motorstorm 2. MGS4 and Killzone 2 will be later on.

posted 7:01am EDT - August 6th, 2008
41

Now sony, just realise that the MGS4 fever is passed. Bring us someting!!!!

posted 7:57am EDT - August 6th, 2008
42

I just hope Kojima is satisfied.  I know him and his crew worked ther tails off to bring this epic game to the PS3.  I think they will reach the 5 million by the end of the year.

posted 9:24am EDT - August 6th, 2008
43

to all ps3 owners go and buy this game...............................really its worth a play.

posted 9:33am EDT - August 6th, 2008
44

take note developers, take your time and put some good effort in your games and you will get good sales.

posted 11:15am EDT - August 6th, 2008
45
Great numbers. Just think: GTA4 was multi and sold 6 mil initially, right? I think it's very possible to reach at least 5 mil by/during Christmas. Go Kojima-san.
posted 12:34pm EDT - August 6th, 2008
46

game of the YEAR

psn id J08hawks

posted 2:24pm EDT - August 6th, 2008
47

MGS4 is as good as it gets. I've never played that style of game before (never even seen the previous games in the series), and I'd buy it again in a heart-beat! Really, this is how games should be. It's virtually perfect, and it deserves to sell 10 million copies... although by the end of the year I would predict maybe half that.

posted 4:10pm EDT - August 6th, 2008
48

yeh i gotta say i always look for faults but this game has gotta be the best for this gen of consoles not even being a fanboy when i say this but it totally destroys gow 1 n 2 when its comes out,the only thing that will beat this will be a another ps3 exclusive and still this game will probly go down as a all time classic,in 10 years from now u will be telling ur kids to play mgs4.

posted 5:23pm EDT - August 6th, 2008
49

is this the bundle cause im buying another ps3 and i want the mgs bundle... awsome anyyways

posted 6:14pm EDT - August 6th, 2008
50

MGS4 best game ever , period.

posted 9:12pm EDT - August 6th, 2008
51
wow! awesome "news" Eric! I almost had a stroke!! will you tell me when it sells 4000002 copies?!? DURRRRP!
posted 10:16pm EDT - August 6th, 2008
52

Outstanding this is a "must buy" title for all PS3 owners!

posted 11:40pm EDT - August 6th, 2008
53
@majicaljokerI It sold 3 million worldwide in 1st week.
posted 1:22am EDT - August 7th, 2008
54

@tabular actually according to the article here on psu, it had shipped nearly 3 million worldwide, not sold.

posted 11:06pm EDT - August 7th, 2008
55

this is an awesome game,  i don't have online but, a new game store let's you play for a very small fee. no it's not gamestop. gameplay plus, i was going to play MGS4 online tonight but, ended up playing GTAIV on x-box since it had to do that long update

posted 6:27am EDT - August 8th, 2008
56

I know this is blasphemy, but I kinda want to see it got to the 360 only to see how many it would sell on both platforms combined.

posted 2:57pm EDT - August 10th, 2008
57

I think by the end of the year that MGS4 will reach at least 7 million.

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