VIDEO GAMES BLOGS
VIDEO GAMES BLOGS
by: ashley
 Guns of the Patriots shoots to the number one spot in the Land of the Rising Sun, shifts just under 500,000 in its first week on sale.

It wasn’t quite a million sold on day one, but Konami must still be quite pleased with last week’s sales figures in Japan for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

After going on sale in the country on June 12, the game debuted at the top of the software charts for the week of June 9-15. So far, 464,926 copies of MGS4 have been sold, which means that it’s almost halfway to Konami’s milestone.

Hideo Kojima’s PlayStation 3 exclusive also boosted sales of the console itself. They were up from 10,856 the week before by almost seven times to 75,311. Read more…

According to Emma Boyes