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#1 Adrian_Cloud
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"Konami has announced that preorders for Metal Gear Solid 2 in Europe have reached 1.57 million units, surpassing the company's original expectations of 1 million units. With those numbers included, Konami expects to ship a total of 4.5 million units of Metal Gear Solid 2 worldwide this fiscal year. By comparison, the original Metal Gear Solid has sold more than 6.6 million units to date.

The European release of Metal Gear Solid 2 is currently scheduled for March 8. "

"Konami's Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was the best-selling console game in November, followed by Grand Theft Auto III, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Harry Potter: The Sorcerer's Stone, Madden NFL 2002, and WWF Smackdown! Just Bring It. In all, the PlayStation family of products accounted for five of the top 10 best-selling console games in November and more than 60 percent of that total revenue."

It outsold GTA for petes sake, if thats not a system seller then what is?


"We're thrilled with the business that Metal Gear Solid 2 has done in its first two weeks on store shelves,'' said Dick Wnuk, executive vice president of Konami of America. "Reorders were coming in from the retail level by the end of the first day of sales. We knew that there was going to be a huge demand for the new Metal Gear, but even we have been surprised by the overwhelming reaction from gamers across North America.''

(on a side note the only other million seller for ps2 was FFX, PS3 has Resistance and Motorstorm)

SYSTEM SELLER I THINK SO?

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#2 SizeMatterzz
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ok.
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#3 therealmcc0y
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Its 100% system seller.

People compare it to Halo or GTA, and yes they are right that they are more system sellers than MGS is, but that doesnt stop it being a system seller... its just not AS big as them

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#4 adastos
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Is there a link to this? :P
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#5 Swift_Boss_A
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Its 100% system seller.

People compare it to Halo or GTA, and yes they are right that they are more system sellers than MGS is, but that doesnt stop it being a system seller... its just not AS big as them

therealmcc0y

agreed, MGS4 is a system seller and those who say otherwise are in denial and damage control.

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It did not outsell GTA 3. It outsold it for a month or two TOPS. GTA3 sold three times as much as MGS2 and it came from a series that didn't do nearly as well as MGS on PS1.

From Wikipedia regarding GTA3 "it quickly became 2001's top selling video game".

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#7 Shattered007
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[QUOTE="therealmcc0y"]

Its 100% system seller.

People compare it to Halo or GTA, and yes they are right that they are more system sellers than MGS is, but that doesnt stop it being a system seller... its just not AS big as them

Swift_Boss_A

agreed, MGS4 is a system seller and those who say otherwise are in denial and damage control.

No just a realist. MGS4 well move consoles but to think that it'll move more then 500,000 is a risky bet.
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#8 X_Evo
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MGS games are not system sellers .. :D

[size=3]wait for it[/size]