Konami’s latest financial results revealed that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has shipped 5 million units (including downloads) since its launch. The game was released on five different platforms (PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and X360) and according to Steamspy’s stats, the game sold around 750K copies on the PC.
While this shows that there is a market for Konami on the PC, it also indicates that the main focus of the company should – theoretically – be on consoles. But then again, this is Konami so expect more pachinkos and mobile games instead of new triple-A games.
What this also shows is that PC gamers want proper current-gen ports instead of the ridiculous old-gen ports of games like PES (which uses the same game engine and according to Steamspy’s stats sold only 46K copies).
MGS V: The Phantom Pain was based on the current-gen build and Kojima Productions did an amazing job with the PC version, as it implemented additional graphical features. Not only that, but the game runs really smooth on a variety of PC systems, and the development team has been releasing hotfixes ever since the game’s launch.
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It’s not a surprise. MGS’ fanbase are mainly console gamers and even then, most are Playstation users.
Also, copies shipped is not the same as copies sold, so I’d expect that those 750,000 are an even higher percentage than 750,000/5,000,000.
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Learn to read, 5,000,000 copies were shipped not sold. 750,000 were sold on PC which the majority is probably from Steam (Digital), barely any PC gamer buys physical except old school, so maybe 150,000 physical units were sold on PC. And after fans and some people complained that the physical version didn’t have the game, and was just a glorified key, more people didn’t bother.
It was selling well on pc for the first 2 weeks until they started cracking it. After then piracy eat it sales. If it was not cracked till now then it would have sole millions on pc.
it doesn’t have anything to do with piracy. witcher 3 also gets pirated, so as GTA V, all of them cracked day1 and both did pretty well. please educate yourself.
They did well yes. But there were lot of peopel who pirated them instead of buying. If they also used Denuvo DRM then they would have sold much better compared to what they sold so far. And iN fact only GTA V did well as it sold more than 1 million in one day while witcher 3 took weeks to sell 1 million, but it would had also sell 1 million in one day if it wasnt cracked.
” If they also used Denuvo DRM”
MGS V does use denuvo. I wonder if max payne 3 who also uses denuvo sold as well let alone, batman arkham knight lords of the fallen bf hardline or the fifa games or dragon age inqusition.
NOPE.
“but it would had also sell 1 million in one day if it wasnt cracked.”
I dont think any high budget AAA game has day one cracks now or it even works properly on day one for people to actually buy it with 200% gurantee that it works then you got the bans of those sites, there is no gain here by stopping piracy all you got is poor third world countries who cant buy the game anyway, somehow getting some sales that dont even make a dent since they are not part of the consumer base.
Suffice to say denuvo is as good as its gonna get and it has yet to pull those sales out of nowhere, cant say the uncracked for years hawxk 2 did anything.
Lets face it, piracy is irrelevant with steam prices and the ease of use and people who cant afford it either are kids who cant pirate it thanks to the goverment or live in third world countries that even if they could buy it, its propably not sold there.
So yeah piracy is dying.
people who pirate games are not going to buy the game because they prefer pirating or they don’t have the money, so nothing is lost (actual number of pirates who are willing to buy a game if they don’t find a crack is less than 1% which means nothing). witcher 3 a DRM free game with 1.5m and compare that to lords of the fallen which sold pretty bad and it didn’t got cracked near a year. look at it this way, i didn’t bought MGSV just because of it’s DRM, if it was a drm free game or used steam’s drm it was in my library.
also game was released on 5 platforms, 750k on PC is not a bad sale number, it’s actually pretty good for an overpriced crap like MGSV, so by your logic X1 and PS4 version is also pirated because they didn’t do pretty well or they didn’t go over 1m by much after near 2months.
to be fair ground zeroes on pc suprasses xbone sales. Give it time
i’m sure MGSV is already surpassed the X1 sales, it would be like that: PS4>PS3>PC>X1>X360
of course 750k sales on pc is good for a game that came on 5 platforms. Now if we knew how much it sold on each platform then we would knew if pc sold as much as each console or not. I hope that at least the pc version must have sold more than xbox on version
it sold better than Xbone version i’m sure, just like GZ. but i hope it fails just because of that DRM.
who will pirate gta v though? it keeps getting updates and there is so much content on mp.
people who might not have the money maybe, i own the game but i didn’t liked even one of those mp updates. they should’ve made single player story mode dlc like gta iv but they didn’t because of microtransactions and R* being greedy. easy money without doing much. also that multiplayer is just bad, most of the time it’s a loading simulator, sometimes it is an error simulator and sometimes when everything works it filled with 5years olds.
to be fair gta iv sp was mostly borring filler missions.
it is
what gta v is doing i watched some missions they were more varied like san andreas?
missions are good & varied but i’m talking about GTAO missions and how they shift their focus from single player to those useless online missions.
well for me GTA5 at the moment is in no-buy zone for various reasons:
– way too oriented to GTAO, which is full of cheaters and doesnt interest me at all
– SP is stull full of bugs especially in the offline mode
– DRM which keeps “reactivating” after couple of days in offline (frienf of mine got butt*ucked by this while they released some update and it bugged and said that code is in use mid-updating – took him two months to resolve it with support)
yep, you can’t run the game offline after a few days which is awful, same as DAI. they should stop with this bulls**t
” SP is stull full of bugs especially in the offline mode ”
really? its a 2013 game damn it
Are you even serious ? The cracked version on PC is sh?tty.
Its bugged , you need to change timezones and some missions are crashing
Also the title is talking about “shipped” not “sold”.
Yes this new DRM Denuvo so far ihas not been fully cracked so all the games who use it have is some issues.But still it helps the game to sell much better than if it was fully cracked at day one like most games Steam spy shows sales numbers so 750k copies are sold on steam.
“it helps the game to sell much better”
again, wrong, it didn’t helped many games, even harder DRMs to crack didn’t do well before. educate yourself 2.
the pc version is not cracked, it is “cracked” based on a old crack that doesnt work on old cpus and the entire game is filled with triggers and freezes, the entire game is a mess and barelly playable, can you finish it? Possibly if you get lucky and skip the prologue and have the correct config and have the correct time zone.
Long story short this game is not actually cracked, its the least cracked game that is a bet if it works or not.
SOOOOOOOO that means piracy didnt cost this game sales it gave it sales because most pirates got fed up with it and bought it to get past the issues.
The game only crashed on prologue, i think it is playable from mission 1 to end, but save file can be corrupted.
prologue and ending. save files only corrupt when using quiet in two specific missions and it was a bug which they fixed in v1.4 patch but crack is based on 1.3 patch.
we all knew a Japanese game is gonna do better on PS3 and PS4. the question is, how did it do on Xbox One? my bet is, PC sales at least rivals X1.
It might seem like the console versions are selling massively better, but keep in mind that it is being sold on not two, but FOUR consoles! So for the PC version to take almost a fifth of a pie split (theoretically) fives ways is pretty good.
As a PC gamer, I have to admit that I wasn’t really drawn to get this game. After watching some gameplay videos on YouTube, it all seemed very repetitive and dull. Maybe I’ll get it during a major sale or something, but it’s not something I’m hyped to play in the future.
It has a lot of replayability and the best part of it is the story/cinematography.
Well his performance was really great.
I got it with my gpu and haven’t play more then 40 minutes of it. Honestly its probably a good game if i delve further into the story but it starts out glacially slow just like 98% of japanese games. I’ve gotta give it to kojima though, as opposed to all other jap developers he can actually optimize games for the pc
umm dont they mean downloaded who buys cd’d anymore there days.oh and fyi 72% of the game sales were on the ps4.
prove it or shut up kid and don’t talk with your a**
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2015/09/08/metal-gear-solid-5-sales-show-ps4s-dominance-over-xbox-one/
read 72% gamers bought it on ps4 22% xbox one and the rest is pc
So basically it sold as much as every Console version (also keep in mind that number of copies shipped =/= number of copies sold). So it might have even outsold one of the Console versions (if number of sales are around 4-4.5 million). But still, even in worst case scenario, sales are almost as strong as any other version, despite being a long time Console focused series. Impressive.
also dont forget they make a lot more out of digital copies sold on steam than retail copies on consoles
not bad considering it was on 6 different consoles.
If the game sold at $60, then 750,000 x $60 = $45,000,000, or even if the median sale price was $45 the its around $33 Million. That is a shitload of money, and what I would call a success in my book.
Also I have yet to buy it myself, I’ve read that its good for new comers to the series but most die hard mgs fans are saying that it is the worst in the series and feels incomplete. I might buy it this weekend if I see it on sale
It’s UK console-only data…
it’s UK and it’s retail which mean nothing.
Haha..I exchanged a W3 + Batman AK keys for a MGS V key…
before Batman AK release, just saying!
#SteamHALLOWEENftw
Yeah, it seems really well optimized, but I can’t play an open world game where the world is dead and empty, you know? I’m playing Witcher 3 now and there’s almost too much to do there. lol
Impressive.
True. It’s well optimised and in today’s environment, you gotta give credit where it’s due.