The Metal Gear series has sold 60 million copies

Konami lately revealed a company replace on its digital leisure enterprise, which is predictably dry studying—the corporate is “Creating New Consumer Experiences” and “Specializing in Additional Growth and Stimulation of esports” and I am already overdosing on buzzwords. There’s one fascinating titbit, nevertheless. Since its launch in July of 1987, the Metallic Gear sequence has achieved 60 million whole cumulative gross sales.

That is based mostly on numbers collected on the finish of June this yr. Because the Wayback Machine exhibits, when Konami final counted gross sales on the finish of September 2022, the Metallic gear sequence was as much as 59.3 million copies offered. Which implies that though there hasn’t been a brand new sport within the sequence because the unloved Metallic Gear: Survive in 2018, it is nonetheless managed to rack up 700,000 gross sales in simply 9 months.