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[Draugoth]

The Metal Gear series has topped 60 million sales.

That's according to a new update posted on the official Konami website which reveals that the revered stealth series – which launched in 1987 – hit the milestone in the run up to June 2023.

As spotted by VGChartz, that's compared with 57.7m units sold in September 2021, and 59.3m units sold back in November 2022, intimating that 700,000 Metal Gear games have been sold in the last seven months alone... even though the series hasn't published a new mainline title since 2018.

 

[Roni]

Great games are great forever. There will always be an influx of people into the hobby looking for greatness...

 

[Mr Hyde]

Metal Gear Solid was the only good one in the franchise.

 

[Sleepwalker]

One of the greatest series ever.

 

[NeverYouMind]

Metal Gear Solid was the only good one in the franchise.

How do you feel about Twin Snakes remake and Snake Eater prequel? More specifically, what do you find to be inferior about them?

 

[Alex Anderson]

I wonder how many of those sales have been me.

 

[zeldaring]

What a amazing franchise. MGSV being my favorite cause the gameplay was so good.

 

[Vandole]

And I haven't contributed to this number in any way, shape, or form.

Metal Gear always been that series that I say, "I really need to play this one of these days". But I think at this point, I'm just going to leave it that way.

 

[vargas117259]

MGS is one of the best videogame series ever made

 

[Kilau]

Metal Gear Solid was the only good one in the franchise.

 

[Pharaoh 117]

Well deserved. Probably still my favorite video-game series ever.

 

[hullostranger]

Well deserved. My all time favorite franchise and the series that continued my passion for gaming beyond childhood. Unfortunate circumstances under which the series capped out Kojima but grateful for each one

 

[lachesis]

I actually liked original Metal Gear on MSX, to be honest. A lot of backtracking and all - but the whole concept felt much fresher. Limited ammos, hide and seek and very clever gadgets and trap layouts for that era.

 

[BossLackey]

Metal Gear is really something special. More than deserved.

 

[Red5]

How can Konami look at these numbers and not greenlight a title to title remake of the whole series like Capcom is doing with Resident Evil?

 

[Elder Legend]

I could never really get into this series. The only one I ever finished from start to end was MGS4. Played a bit of 5 and that was it. Never understood what's so special about it but grats on the sales.

 

[GooseMan69]

I’ve only played 2, 3, and 5. Can’t wait to play 1 when the collection comes out. And I’ve been waiting to play 4 forever. I never owned a PS3 so I never got to play it.

 

[mrmustard]

Loved the Nes game, but never got into the 3d ones.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Stil say MGS on the PS1 is the best in the series. So looking forward to the remake

 

[Beer Baelly]

Stil say MGS on the PS1 is the best in the series. So looking forward to the remake

Twin Snakes called.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Twin Snakes called.

Didn't like the Cube remake myself

 

[SkylineRKR]

Twin Snakes was horrible to me. The first person view and tranq gun broke the game, I think. But I didn't like the cutscenes, it was too far off from actual gameplay. Music remix wasn't good too. For the rest they don't even play that differently. Also didn't help MGS2 played better and was already old by then.

My favourites are 2 and 3 Subsistence.

 

[Mr Hyde]

How do you feel about Twin Snakes remake and Snake Eater prequel? More specifically, what do you find to be inferior about them?

Twin Snakes didn't do anything for me. A pretty bad remake overall, and aside from graphics it was two steps back with too many unnecessary changes to the original. Snake Eater was a step in the right direction, especially since I hated Sons of Liberty, but it was plagued by bad controls (which was apparently fixed in Subsistence) and Kojimas writing and directing was so bad and contrived I just noped out. I gave MGS one last chance with Guns of the Patriots but I found it equally bad, if not worse, than everything that came before it. 2 minutes of gameplay and 30 minutes of cut scenes is nothing for me.