You are right, my numbers are a tally of NPD, Media Create and various European sources for the original SKU (i.e. not counting MGS2: Substance or MGS3: Subsistence).
Shipment numbers would be more appropriate, but I don't really put a lot of faith in vgchartz's numbers.
This Konami press release has MGS3 at 3.7 million, so your number of 3.96 million seems to fit.
I agree with you that anything over 400DKP is an unsupportable number, since it is higher than the previous game sold on a 124 million install base.
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You are right, my numbers are a tally of NPD, Media Create and various European sources for the original SKU (i.e. not counting MGS2: Substance or MGS3: Subsistence).
Shipment numbers would be more appropriate, but I don't really put a lot of faith in vgchartz's numbers.
This Konami press release has MGS3 at 3.7 million, so your number of 3.96 million seems to fit.
I agree with you that anything over 400DKP is an unsupportable number, since it is higher than the previous game sold on a 124 million install base.