Konami has announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 first quarter ended December 31st. According to the Japanese publisher, its PC sales increased by 8%, surpassing even those of Xbox One. Konami’s best selling platforms are still Sony’s consoles, however we can now safely say that PC is a viable platform for Konami.
According to Konami’s results, PC sales accounted for 10% of total units sold (last year’s PC sales accounted for only 2%). Therefore, the PC platform was able to surpass Xbox One (and all handheld consoles) and is now head to head with X360.
Good news also for all Metal Gear fans as the latest part of the Metal Gear Solid franchise (which is basically a demo but let’s overlook that) has sold solid. As Konami noted, the game’s sales on the PC were solid, though the Japanese publisher did not reveal any sales figures. Still, this proves that it was a wise decision to bring a polished version of it was well worth it.
All in all, it’s good witnessing such a significant increase. It will now be interesting to see whether Konami will put even more effort on its PC titles, and whether the PC version of The Phantom Pain will be released alongside the console versions.
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thats because its cheaper on pc and more people have a pc then xbox one..ust wait till the $60 msg5 is released then lets see the sales after pc pirates it to hell.lets see then what they say.and they are judging this on a demo not a full retail game.
You are forgetting Castlevania and MGR. And if just a demo that is cheaper proved to be more profitable wouldn’t all this means that all this pirate talk is bs?
There will be pirates for sure, but there are still tons of fans of the franchise on PC that would buy the game to support MGS on PC. Myself being on of those people. Not to mention many PC gamers would like to encourage Konami to put out more quality PC ports.
like i did. i don’t even care about this franchise at all, not a fan but when i saw the benchmarks and how well it was optimized i just bought it to support a quality port
Really, why console kids are lurking always these kind of news? Are you mad because XBONE sucks? Get a life.
And castlevania sold very well for a 49.99 dollars game, sucker!!
lol console kids.
Dont pretend people dont pirate on consoles.
+1, look at the old consoles PS3 for an e.x!
Pirating are SH*T high for sure and it’s only a matter of time before the PS4/Xbone are hacked.
I wouldent be to supprised if Cobra or key team are hard at work for an ODE for them 😉
And I cant frikking wait, said it before and say it again. I PIRATE console games as much as I could. To hell with the consoles and if I have to play any exclusive crap then I bloody well should have it for free 😀
The only support I give is for the Pc and that’s F*CKN it 😉
I’m not proud about it, but this has been my policy too..
I’ve spent thousands on Steam games over the decade yet I have a CFW PS3 and JTAG’d 360 for those few exclusives that refuse to have PC versions.
I don’t think this is immoral honestly, because I tons of money on gaming. I’m not apart of the problem, I just don’t want to have anything to do with petty consoles. I just wanna play games on my system of choice.
Well dont feel sorry about it one bit, the more that pirate those sh*tty console games all for the better. And that people buy more pc games insteed 😉
I really hope that all POS console will die some day, well some in the business seems to think so. We can only hope.
As I use to say, one platform to rule them all – Pc and nothing else.
I belive with the SteamOS/ Machines, pc gaming will definetly grows even stronger.
Would be wonderful just to play every game on the pc, no more crappy exclusives this and that.
Btw I have an PS3 with the Cobra ODE and right now waiting for the WiiU to be hacked 😉
I think this gen I’m gonna buy a lot of pirated game cause of the huge size they have every game now come with 30gb or 50gb even gta 5 65gb that’s even more of my available bandwidth
I know you hate ho pirate games but I pay 50 $ for 50gb 4mb
and if I want more bandwidth 80 $ for 100gb 8mb speed and that’s a lot $$$$$$$ in our country last gen I didn’t have any problems cause of the small dize but now damn
your bandwidth is 4times more than mine. thats not the reason for pirating, if you want to pirate it then you still need to download those 40 50gb files. but if you buy them, your able to pre load as well.
yeah it will take me around 6 days to download GTA V. and yes those big size are annoying. and i pay 45$ for a 2mbps bandwith with 256kb data transfer speed, half of a week it’s less then 200kb.
i do this for games that are bigger than 30gb:
i buy the game on steam or whatever. i buy the physical back up files (less than a $ most of the times) then i install the physical backup and steam will verify it and install it for me.
believe me it hurt 1gb extra cost 2$ if im over my bandwidth limit i think developer are doing this releasing big sized game to stop pirate but i think otherwise :p
hahaha the strawman argument of an ignorant jealous console faggot. come on man, really? the piracy arguement? you really still think thats an issue for developers? bahahahahaha…..you are one funny dumb piece of s**t. i love comments like these that think they are smart, but are nothing short of IGNORANT. You obviously have no idea wtf to say anymore, thus the reason you only talk about piracy hahaha.
Console piracy is okay for you?
The fact they are judging this on a RIPOFF demo that is quite old proves that the pc version when optimized will sell well.
Oh be quiet. If developers weren’t making a good profit from PC then it wouldn’t get the most developer support, simple.
Now go back launch some of the consoles HD collections (or fix/improve the PC ports of yore) and profit even more.
I’m not a hard person to please, just give me things that work and options (can’t emphasize that enough) and I’ll easily give praise. 😀
Yeah, as a huge fan of MGS I would love to see all of the games get released on PC. Graphics tweaks or not. I considered buying the MGS collection on PS3 just to get all the HD remakes, but if Konami announced they would be releasing them all on PC I would wait.
Simple job, just port the entirely of Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection to PC, & sell it on Steam as a bundle.
Unfortunately though Kojima hates Ports, so chances are a bit wonky 🙁
i want mgs 3 on pc, its like far cry as far as gameplay goes.
Yeah, but a overhaul in the inventory system would be nice, pausing the game every 10 seconds to access the camouflage or the healing system was a royal pain in the arse.
I wonder how different these figures would be if all their games released on PC at the same time as consoles. I have personally changed my mind on games I wanted to buy after the console version dampens the hype and im sure many other PC gamers where put off buying MGSGZ when they learned how short it was from console gamers.
How this could be surprising in 2015?
hope Silent HillS comes for PC too. assuming Sony isn’t “funding” it.
Even if Sony funds it, they’ve been keen on supporting the PC community, in their own way (looks at Street Fighter V). I can imagine it for PC and PS4 only.
yea it is possible but then again we have things like Bloodborne although technically Bloodborne’s situation is different.
i highly doubt kojima and konami wont do a pc version after this
AAANNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD IT’S gone.
The Master Race extends its reach into the land of the rising sun. Good, good.
Tyler Wilde officially said we’re not allowed to use that phrase anymore, remember? You wouldn’t want to be labeled a Nazi racist Hitler would you? Please use Fearsome Keyboard People instead, as Tyler suggested.
Thank you,
Fellow SJW.
Taking a look, MGS V GZ came on december, so maybe even MGS sales didnt make a great difference if this data isnt showing all the december sales. For me maybe a great part of that 10% is Castlevania, MGR and PES. PES for some reason is that kind of game that people still prefer buy as retail disc.
The PC master race is finally getting the attention it deserves speaking honestly with its solid sales. Woahhhhhhh
How come the PS4 is still the platform with bigger sales? I thought PC gamers outnumber PS4 users + PC gamers may have more money since they can afford a gaming PC that’s a bit more expensive than a PS4/ PC has cheaper games.
Marketing.
PC gamers are known for cheap-skate. Sales comes when it’s on sales. That’s why many games tend to delay PC release.
well i put it this way when far cry 4 is at version 1.9 and its STILL NOT FIXED. I obviously gonna wait for a sale as they should have waited to finish polishing the game before releasing it.
Why would i buy a unfinished game for 60 bucks when pc doesnt have royality fees and should be cheaper?
Konami have just started to support PC gaming, while they have being with Playstation since the brand’s release, which is where most of their fanbase lies. Do you actually believe their games would sell f*cktons at the snap of a finger on a platform they just started to release games to?
They have far more PS4 releases since the PC support was nonexistent until recently.
same reason its selling HYPE.
Nobody noticed how ridiculously small the 10% looks in comparison to PS4’s 20%? Deliberate use of perspective to make PS look better.
“Konami’s best selling platforms are still Sony’s consoles, however we
can now safely say that PC is a viable platform for Konami.”
it’s in the first paragraph of the article. did you even read the article?
Changes nothing on my part.
we are going to steal your children console mommas we are going to steal all of your children >:)
Great news John. This bodes well for the future!
Very vey good indeed!
Playstation is the home of mgs .
funny because the first mgs was made on a pc.
*sigh* console haters incoming…
get the F out
Good news, Now if they release Metal Gear Collection & Silent Hills that percentage will grow larger.
Tyler Wilde can go prance in a field with 8chan for all I care.
I had to google this guy. He lives in San Francisco. No.
Replied to the wrong person.
Stupid Japanese developers -__-
Your turn Atlus. Give us P5 on PC already!!!
PC master race.
That’s half of PS4 sales and you chanting the master race? Lol
On a single given game
its not about quantity 🙂
didnt know sales=quality.
Xbox gets the most sales on cod.
XBOX MASTER RACE am i right?
Well yes it’s great that it is half of PS4 sales seeing as Pro Evolution soccer on PC was a port of the last gen versions so simply wouldn’t have sold. The PC never got PS4 ports of the Baseball games either. In fact out of all those games as far as I can see only Soccer and Metal Gear were ported to PC and Soccer didn’t sell on PC due to being a HD port of the 360 version . So 10% is mainly down to ONE game against all the other games that sell well in Japan while there is no PC gaming in Japan.
So yes , there is reason to celebrate as Metal Gear 5 will come to PC with even more PC specific enhancements like Ground Zeroes.
You are looking at ONE game on PC versus ALL the others that launched on PS4
Who is Tyler Wilde and why should we listen to him?
Better than good sales, i think Kojima was flattered with MG mod XD
awesome news!
Good! maybe we will get MGS Collection too.
It saddens me greatly tyler wilde was a peasant 4.5 year ago and he gets to write for pc gamer.
PC GAMER
Always in Next Gen .
PC VIVA 😡