Metal Gear: 60 million sales for the Konami series

1987, the young developer Hideo Kojima launched Metal Geara stealth game for MSX2 featuring Solid Snakean agent of fox hound sent to South Africa to avoid a nuclear attack. The beginning of a great saga especially popularized by Metal Gear Solid on PlayStation in 1998, and which continues… with difficulty today.

Hideo Kojima was fired right after the development of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in 2015, but the publisher Konami still tried to make the license survive with Metal Gear Survive in 2018, without success. Overall, the franchise is still a huge critical success, and there are a lot of fans. Konami just to unveil on his professional website License Metal Gear has 60 million games sold since its debut in July 198736 years ago.

A figure that should increase by a few million soon with Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eaterremake of the PS2 opus with Naked Snake in a fictional country of the USSR. A compilation with the three SMG originals is also provided, Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1which you can pre-order at €59.99 on Amazon.

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