Get_craycray
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Metal Gear Solid V ships 5 million copies
- Thread starter Nirolak
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From the man who sold the world
Any publisher with 80m to burn?
Konami made you pay 60 fucking dollars, those bastards, and their shady tactics.
SuperBanana
Banned
They must be glad they fucked off the man who made them hundreds of millions.
Pro from Dover
Member
One more million to break even. It can do it!
Subhuman Filth
Member
I hear Rockstar's always hiring.
5m copies sold means past break even??
Sakura
Member
Thankfully they did really awful in the NPD
Europe was probably similar and Japan is irrelevant in the console market.
MGSV did 800k in the US for September while Japan did 600k.
I'm not sure how that is irrelevant in regards to MGS in the console market.
nephilimdj
Member
MGS have a history of being re-released as budget games, I assume still has long legs after this xmas then the re-release
They are idiots then. 2&3 couldn't reach anywhere near that on the most successful console of all time. Besides, the ps3 and 360 versions might as well not exist for all the help they were.
This is after they released a paid demo and added microtransactions for the first time. Why not.
Ya Witcher 3 is a monster, with legs too.
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
Konami checked gaf and saw all the posts about people buying MGSV to teach konami a lesson and they knew they won
I am pretty early in this game, just encountered
, but DAMN I am having so much fun. There is just so much to do, so many upgrades, weapons, gadgets, crazy tools and exploration. Building mother base is awesome, too. Good on you Kojima... it's just too bad Konami will probably spend most of those moneys making Pachinko machines.
Quiet
MGSV? weird. Cheapshark only has it at $50 lowest ever and Witcher 3 as low as $22.
Langdon Alger
Banned
Deserved.
Dragon Puncher
Member
Well deserved for the goty.
Jonneh3003
Banned
I'm one of those 5 million and I personally don't think the game deserves it and i'm saying this as a lifelong fan of the series. But hopefully this sends a message to Konami at the very least..
giancarlo123x
Banned
Chapter 3 incoming.
Augemitbutter
Member
amazing game.
The simple fact they are revealing the number means they are more than happy
It was win/win for them anyway. If it bombed everything they did was now justified, if it succeeded then they made a ton of money.
For them it's probably better that it was profitable, they don't care what we think anyway.
You move the files to a server and make a number up for how many copies are virtually sitting in inventory.
giancarlo123x
Banned
I think 15 camp omega sized playgrounds would've been better imo.
Turin Turambar
Member
Given he also made them spend who knows how many millions in the long development of the game. Somehow people forget this detail. Not every million gained now is going to be pure profit.
best put a source on that
$180 million in revenue on day one. mgsv's budget is allegedly half of that. konami likely broke even day 2 or 3. this is coming up on two months after release.
the_batman
Banned
have Kojima's games ever made Konami lose money?
you spend money to make money. this is business 101.
SuperBanana
Banned
It made $179 million in 24 hours. It made a lot of money.
Cave Johnson
Member
Good lord, I wonder how R* can put up with spending that money in comparison. Or even AAA games in general.
With Ground Zeroes profits on top of that too.
Supposedly he spent 90M on it, this probably includes the Fox engine which they are still using for other games and the development of Ground Zeroes.
Even if you ignore Fox Engine as an asset (Admittedly it doesn't have much use in Konami's future) and GZ's income entirely they are likely well into pulling a profit on this game now and it still has the holiday season to go.
You can argue he went over budget and he probably did by a fair margin, but he's had a strong track record of producing profitable games. The way he was treated was uncalled for and on top of that it's bad business that caused a ton of PR issues and jeopardized sales.
You can argue he spent a lot of money, but so what? He's always worked like this and he's been with the company 28 years, if they had an issue they shouldn't have approved to project to begin with.
I did always find it amusing that people would look at thier reports and pont out how much more money Konami was making on Pachislot and such in quarters they weren't actually releasing any games.
GametimeUK
Member
The beat game of the generation so far and it blows MGS4 out of the water. I was so disappointed with the franchise, but this game turned it around... until the cut content, microtransactions, online and awful DLC hit. It's a shame that one of the greatest games I'll ever play is tainted by these issues.
nah lol. No mgs game has surpassed 7 and that was back in 2001 with MGS2.
Great numbers. I still don't understand why people think that $80 Million for a game of this scope and size is (too) much. That's pretty much exactly as much as Witcher 3 cost and that game was heralded for it's cheap production cost. And that game was produced in eastern europe compared to the ridiculous living expanses in Tokyo and LA.
It's not a small budget but it's certainly not a very big one either. That's just how much AAA games cost. Tomb Raider was reported to have cost $100 Million. Again, compare that to the scope of MGS V. And we don't even know if Ground Zeroes was already part of the $80 Million estimate (which itself was never officially stated or confirmed, mind you). The game did really good, all things considered (and we don't even know how much Konami is making with the game's microtransactions).
It's not a small budget but it's certainly not a very big one either. That's just how much AAA games cost. Tomb Raider was reported to have cost $100 Million. Again, compare that to the scope of MGS V. And we don't even know if Ground Zeroes was already part of the $80 Million estimate (which itself was never officially stated or confirmed, mind you). The game did really good, all things considered (and we don't even know how much Konami is making with the game's microtransactions).
JohnnyWestlake
Banned
Do Ground Zero's sales not count towards breaking even on MGSV budget as a whole? Surely they must
EDIT: Late to the party.... >.<
MRrogermoore
Member
I heard they need like 6mil units sold to break even,
And more to make some profit.
And more to make some profit.
What are the non-Nintendo japanese games that sold more than 10 million on consoles/PC?
Good for you.
Congrats to konami (God that feels weird to say)
Great game, hope it sells double that.
I'm 15 hours in and have no idea what the story is about. Don't care either. Gameplay is so much fun. Most fun I've had with any MGS game.
GT5 in 2010?