Fancy a trip to Tokyo with five of your friends? Konami has announced that a European Metal Gear Online Tournament will begin very shortly which will allow you to win exactly that. Check out the official website and sign up today and you'll take part in one of the preliminary tournaments over the next few weeks. These will be straight Team Deathmatch games, with the best two teams being flown to Tokyo for the world final during the Tokyo Game Show.
"The Kojima Productions game helped boost PlayStation 3 game sales from 1.3% to a solid 57.3% of Konami's total game sales, with MGS4 representing about 56.8% of that. Konami lists Metal Gear Solid 4 sales for the quarter at 3.94 million, just a bit higher than the figure revealed by Sony's Kaz Hirai last month. Sales may have tapered off after the initial push, as the game has already been discounted by some Japanese retailers."
With Metal Gear Solid 4 confirmed at half a million sales in Japan and one million in Europe, the big question is, just how many copies has the game sold overall. While we don't have sales figures just yet, we do know the game's shipped number: three million.
@tyrile, First, I believe that it is industry standard that the first week means not 7 calendar days, but date since launch up to either Saturday or Sunday.
Example : Japan games are usually released on Thursday (except certain games, like Wii Fit or Dragon Quest, which were released on Saturday). Japanese tracking firm, M-create & Famitsu, track sales up to Sunday, so the standard of the first week for most japanese released game is 4 days (Thursdays - Sunday). In US, NPD usually track sales up to Saturday (hence the NPD period always end on Saturday), so for MGS4 has 3 days for it's first week sales (Jun 12 till 14). I don't know about VGC standard, nor do I know Konami standard. I think VGC standard is as you said (release date till Saturday), but I don't know for sure.
It is possible that Konami meant 7 full days, but I doubt it.
Even though Konami used sold, it is actually shipped (sold to retailer), not sold (sold to customer). This is my opinion, and not a fact. It is standard that publisher PR always mentioned shipped (sold to retailer), not sold (sold to customer).
The "first week" of sales you think VGC is reporting only covers the first 3 days of Metal Gear sales. The game was released on June 12th, and VGC's numbers are for the week ending June 14th. I doubt they sold another ~500k in the next 4 days, though.
We hear that Europeans like Metal Gear Solid. So to get ready, Konami shipped a million copies of Metal Gear Solid 4 to European retailers. That's a lot! A million shipped is impressive — a million sold, even more so. Martin Schneider, Sales and Marketing Director Germany for Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH, comments with SPOILER: Check Link
@mrahaju, I really don't know who I should believe, VGC with it's 430K 1st week # for Others (Europe, I think), or Konami's 1 Million (sold, not shipped) in Europe. Anyone willing to help me decoding this article ?
I am especially interested in VGC's America #, which are currently 500K. If VGC underestimate MGS4 in Europe by 100% (from 430K to 1 Million), shouldn't we also increase MGS4 America by same proportion, say to 1.1 Million ? Or is there some fault in my logic / question ?
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