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MGS4 tops one million sales in Europe

Posted on June 24th, 2008 at 06:58 EDT

Konami Digital Entertainment announced today that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has sold one million copies across Europe since its release on June 12.

The critically acclaimed stealth-action proved to be an instant hit with consumers upon its release, debuting at number one on the UK All Format Charts and becoming the fastest selling PlayStation 3 title in the region to date.

The publisher also confirmed that it shipped a further 25,000 copies of the Limited Edition SKU to retailers across Europe, noting they “were snapped up almost immediately.”

Martin Schneider, Sales and Marketing Director for Konami Digital Entertainment Germany, commented: “The Metal Gear Solid series has again proved its huge potential, and we are delighted with the fantastic response the game has enjoyed at retail.”

“MGS4 is nothing short of a masterpiece – an epic conclusion to the Solid Snake story. We are extremely pleased with the positive feedback we have received from retail and consumers alike, and will keep satisfying their needs with updates to the game’s ‘Extra’ option, and via new content to Metal Gear Online.”

Stay tuned for our review of Metal Gear Online soon.

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posted 7:01am EDT - June 24th, 2008
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Great news, and this is only European sales? Great to hear they're updating the 'Extras' option, more iPod songs and camo would be nice.
posted 7:01am EDT - June 24th, 2008
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Not more? :(

posted 7:06am EDT - June 24th, 2008
3

Well, so much for the "It needs to sell one million copies to be successfull" thing.  I think that was debunked anyway.  But even if it was true, they did it in one territory.

posted 7:24am EDT - June 24th, 2008
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wow thats awesome for just 1 week and a bit :)

 

Best selling PS3 exclusive evarrr

posted 8:53am EDT - June 24th, 2008
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hold on has it sold anywhere else @ 1 million or more?

posted 9:46am EDT - June 24th, 2008
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not alot of people buy and play the great games, only the real gamers do, stupid people see GTAiv the most overrated game EVER which was cr4p and go crazy...MGS4 by far should outsell anyother game when it comes to real gaming quality.

posted 10:11am EDT - June 24th, 2008
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i agree with psycho gta4 sucked and mgs4 is easily one the top 5 games of all time

posted 10:14am EDT - June 24th, 2008
8

Strong numbers and great news !

posted 10:23am EDT - June 24th, 2008
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psn id: gingo.... this is exceptionally good news and i hope the strong sales continue as this is the pinnacle of gaming and should not be missed by anyone 

posted 11:55am EDT - June 24th, 2008
10

Awesome.

posted 12:12pm EDT - June 24th, 2008
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So it sold 1/2 million on the first day out in Japan, and a solid 1 mil in Europe on its first week. Anybody know what the world wide week's sales is? It's gotta be about 3 million by now.

posted 1:10pm EDT - June 24th, 2008
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Ya know the limited edition outsold the normal, and this means MGS4 is BEYOND epic!

posted 1:10pm EDT - June 24th, 2008
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Ya know the limited edition outsold the normal, and this means MGS4 is BEYOND epic!

posted 3:23pm EDT - June 24th, 2008
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dat it??

posted 3:48pm EDT - June 24th, 2008
15

Easily Game Of The Year. I'm a hardcore gamer and i never played such an amazing game before in my life. I've been gaming for a pretty long time and i must say i thought things were getting hopeless on all 4 platforms . Then Kojima Productions hits us with Metal Gear Solid 4. Absolutely Amazing.

posted 4:57pm EDT - June 24th, 2008
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Masterpiece at the least!! GTAIV sucked, specially compared with S.A. PSN ID-Demented007
posted 5:14pm EDT - June 24th, 2008
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are you sure its a million sold and not a million shipped? im not doubting the sale number but i heard different
posted 6:13pm EDT - June 24th, 2008
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posted 6:30am EDT - June 25th, 2008
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@15

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posted 4:05pm EDT - June 25th, 2008
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Yo guys where did this GTAIV bashing come from? GTAiV was a great game and so is MGS4. thats good to hear that europe thought as highly of the game as the rest of the world. The only real competition MGS4 has for game of the year is Gears of War 2 but MGS4 should have it by a long shot still

posted 11:50pm EDT - June 25th, 2008
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Wow, Already!!! That's pretty fast to me.

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