Metal Gear Solid 4 ships nearly four million worldwide

  • Posted August 5th, 2008 at 17:08 EDT by Eric Blattberg
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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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  1. LegendaryAim | LegendaryAim

    • 5:15pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    Snake SNNNAAAAKKKKKEEEEEE go kojima

  2. BlueRevolvuR | BlueRevolvuR

    • 5:17pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    prety amazing for an exclusiv, hope it beats MGS2

  3. DeadOnArrival06 | DeadOnArrival06

    • 5:24pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    Great game. I love every second of it.

  4. dam6655 | dam6655

    • 5:27pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    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.

  5. Genesis- | bleu-manga

    • 5:31pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    I predict a possible 3.98 million LTD in sales before the end of the year.

  6. terminator12259 | tacitassassin25

    • 5:33pm BST - August 5th, 2008

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

  7. Philaroni | Philaroni

    • 5:46pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    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.

  8. Twilight93

    • 5:47pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    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.

  9. zombieking36

    • 5:56pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    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!

  10. AWAKE

    • 6:11pm BST - August 5th, 2008

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

  11. Odium_Generis_Humani

    • 6:12pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    Christmas will bring it to 5 mil.

  12. TaMszz | TaMss

    • 6:25pm BST - August 5th, 2008

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

  13. gingo | gingo

    • 6:32pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    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

  14. TH3 GAM3 | GAM3OV3R003

    • 7:03pm BST - August 5th, 2008

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

  15. DaSaint | DaSaint

    • 7:24pm BST - August 5th, 2008

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

  16. Ryuuchi10 | Ryuuchi10

    • 7:45pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    My most favorite PS3 game of all-time.

  17. rexdeath | rexdeath

    • 7:49pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    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.

  18. LegendaryAim | LegendaryAim

    • 7:51pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    Mgs4 was the greatest game to grace this GEN thus far

  19. CHRISBOSH | tatti

    • 8:03pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    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?

  20. hawkster3269 | BlackHawk5132

    • 8:30pm BST - August 5th, 2008

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

  21. gameoholic | Demented007

    • 8:38pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    This holiday, it should hit 5m, give it time. Kick a** game thou!! PSN ID- Demented007

  22. Denali2 | NEJI64

    • 8:42pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    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

  23. advancednewbie | AdvNoob11

    • 9:03pm BST - August 5th, 2008

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

  24. Ocelot1987 | METSTM

    • 9:15pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    This game deserved every penny it got so far.

  25. ferret66

    • 9:16pm BST - August 5th, 2008

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

  26. sayeed

    • 9:24pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    im gonna buy it this week :)

  27. singlestrike

    • 9:55pm BST - August 5th, 2008

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

  28. Hyourinmaru | DAT1AZNPAN

    • 9:56pm BST - August 5th, 2008

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

  29. HeartAttackSilv3rback |

    @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.

  30. deniled

    • 10:04pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    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!

  31. psn_frov | frov

    • 10:12pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    @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.

  32. smallvillefreak

    • 10:44pm BST - August 5th, 2008

    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.

  33. Rechain | Rechain

    • 1:33am BST - August 6th, 2008

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

    /Rechain


  34. XenoSilvano | XenoSilvano

    • 2:46am BST - August 6th, 2008

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

  35. tadpole3159 | faulkner8991

    • 2:56am BST - August 6th, 2008

    best game ever, its so emotional

  36. Limmex

    • 4:26am BST - August 6th, 2008

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

  37. MagicalJoker

    • 4:31am BST - August 6th, 2008

    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

  38. NitroMikeo

    • 5:12am BST - August 6th, 2008

    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.

  39. idenowhereiam | WylieTimes

    • 5:28am BST - August 6th, 2008

    And they said it couldnt be done..

  40. Zephyr | Zyrak

    • 6:35am BST - August 6th, 2008

    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.

  41. T-BoNeS- | T-BoNeS-Qc

    • 7:01am BST - August 6th, 2008

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

  42. solid79 | solid79

    • 7:57am BST - August 6th, 2008

    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.

  43. lovelyguy | 15975997

    • 9:24am BST - August 6th, 2008

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

  44. TekkenLord | HitMan00

    • 9:33am BST - August 6th, 2008

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

  45. stovich | TasteLikeBurning

    • 11:15am BST - August 6th, 2008

    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.

  46. J08hawks | J08hawks

    • 12:34pm BST - August 6th, 2008

    game of the YEAR

    psn id J08hawks

  47. Scarl | Scarl

    • 2:24pm BST - August 6th, 2008

    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.

  48. markwesker

    • 4:10pm BST - August 6th, 2008

    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.

  49. jocomat9 | jocomat10

    • 5:23pm BST - August 6th, 2008

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

  50. heywhatisthat

    • 6:14pm BST - August 6th, 2008

    MGS4 best game ever , period.

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