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The Metal Gear Solid series has been associated with the PlayStation brand since Solid Snake first set foot on Shadow Moses in 1998. Even though the latest game in the series, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, was multiplatform, it appears that new-gen players preferred to experience the game on Sony's PlayStation 4.
According to Konami's fiscal report for the quarter ending June 30, 2014, the game sold three times as many copies on the PS4 than it did on Xbox One. The information was revealed in a unit sales breakdown, which you can see here. The chart doesn't break down sales on a per-game basis, but considering that Ground Zeroes is the only game that Konami has released on the new-gen systems, it's easy to extrapolate that detail. According to the data, PS4 sales accounted for 12 percent of unit sales during the quarter, while the Xbox One brought in 4 percent. All told, Konami reports that it sold 570,000 copies of Metal Gear games in the quarter, compared to the 190,000 units that were sold during the same period last year.
As a whole, the PlayStation brand continues to drive most of Konami's console-game sales, with the PS3 and PS4 accounting for a combined 54 percent. Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox One account for 12 percent, and the Wii brought in 2 percent. The company hasn't released any software for the Wii U.
Our TakeMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is coming out sometime in 2015, and it should be interesting to see if PlayStation players remain loyal to the platform. There's always the possibility that Xbox One players are holding out for a full-length release instead of the tease that Ground Zeroes provides.
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I am one of those who played it on PS4. I liked it, but as everyone says, it was really short. Definately looking forward to Phantom Pain, though!
I enjoyed Ground Zeroes, but of course I didn't have to pay for it, I just borrowed a friends copy. I imagine if I did drop $30 or $40 on it I might not be as enthused.
Regardless, I thought the gameplay and graphcis were very promising. It sealed my MGSV purchase that is for sure.
This makes sense. Metal Gear Solid is known to be a Playstation franchise.
Well between there being a lot more ps4 users then xbox one users, and the fact that MGS started out on playstation, this is no surprise.
This is not surprising. When a series like MGS has been mostly exclusive to one system is just feels right on that platform, that being Playstation. Also PS4 has outsold Xbox One hardware wise as well so that is even a factor.
For me it felt awkward playing a MGS game on Xbox.
Well considering MGS is a Playstation series that only recently came to Xbox, it makes sense that it would sell better to its core audience. That said, I'm glad I rented this, because while it was fun, it was, imo at least, not worth the original $30 asking price.
Well since half of Konami's game sales come from Japan and the PS4 is out selling Xbox One in general this seems pretty obvious.
That's the ratio to how many PS4 to XB1 consoles were sold, so there's little surprise.
Well I think this is not really a surprise since there are more PS4 out there than X1 at the moment. That being said im an xbox gamer but I bought ground zeroes for the PS4. It just didn't feel right playing a metal gear solid game on the xbox. Lol