Metal Gear Solid V Ships Over 6 Million Copies as Konami Profits

they can continue to pump out MGS games but we all know it wont work without Kojima

@FullbringIchigo Pretty much. The only thing that could potentially work is a sequel to Revengeance, but even that's a stretch. But if that happened it would probably be the only post-Kojima Metal Gear I'd buy.

Pump them out all you want. I'm done with the series. No Kojima, no deal. He was what made the series so unique. If Konami can't see that then there is no point us telling them.

Mission successful, Kojima, you mean.

For the record, this is the first MGS game I have bought. The focus on gameplay over story won me over, although to be honest I haven't played it yet. Too much backlog.

I loved the gameplay in this entry, but man, the story was the most dissapointing aspect of it. This was supposed to have an incredible and lengthy story, and there was probably supposed to be way more than just two chapters and continents to the game as well. But nope, corporate meddling came into play and the game was forced out the door before it was truly 100% ready. To me, the game's story is almost Destiny levels of dissapointing. It did an alright job of tying the series into the original Metal Gears with the twist, but that's honestly it.

I'm sure konami's got a team of smart peeps to keep that company going. All the new talent can get a chance to show off their creative juices. Here's to another decade of success at Konami. Castlevania reboot / RPG pls!

MGSV was a mixed bag but I think they could squeeze a current gen sequel out if they basically took MGSV and just fixed the niggling points (story, repetitive missions at the end etc.). It worked for the Far Cry series. However, for a true next chapter they would need a new Kojima to prove to supporters that it wasn't the same old story and they are going to struggle there.

Regrets eh. Kojima says bite me. They should put the Franchise up for Auction, Sony would do a decent job Viddy Game wise and Movie wise. To make it a success in the future they'd just need to use pre order tiered incentives and release the game digital only via episodic content, huge delays are mandatory.

Well Konami now you see make money with quality games. How stupid do they feel now by losing your company icon Kojima idiots.....

@sinalefa I feel your pain to much games to little time.

Well that's good. I know Konami ain't what they use to be but I don't want the company to just flop. If they can make new games for consoles I'm all for it. I don't know about a new Metal Gear without Kojima though. Maybe start with a Castldvania reboot, or the the game people have been dying for- Rumble Roses 3.

With that Fox engine up and running it would be silly to stop; they can easily bring a 4 million selling MGS game every 2 years till the end of this gen. And without Kojima, an artist, having a say about their spendings, Konami 's entertainment division could be doing really well. It's a shame to say it, but having a developer as the Vice President, especially such a visionary, isn't good for the financial health of companies. You can compare it with supporters or ex- players running a smaller football club, it always goes wrong in the end: they want to become league champions so bad that they are willing to take extreme risks, which hardly ever pay off.

We saw the same with Capcom actually and now it's ran by businessmen instead of artists, creators, they're doing much better financially.

@Boerewors But your presuming you cant be artistic and book smart - they aren't mutually exclusive.

"You can compare it with supporters or ex- players running a smaller football club"

100% disagree Barcelona is owned by the fans. Green Bay Packers owned by the fans. Portsmouth is now after administration owned by the fans and the Bolton fans have drafted the Portsmouth fans into help them take over their debt ridden club.

Awesome. I loved this game, the greatest MGS ever.

The story was daft, but the gameplay was wonderful. Quiet is one of the best female characters in videogaming history.

I am surprised I thought the numbers would be higher. The thing is its sold 6 million copies but because of the way consoles are set up it is played by a much larger number of people of which the developer gets no money. This issue really needs to be looked at when the next console generation comes along.

As for Konami they can still create another MGS. One man does not make a company.

@supercat Quiet streams on twitch playing MGS V she is fun to watch as she uses her own charcter

If this were Pre-Peace Walker days, I could agree with not going forward with MGS without Kojima. But since it's a few years and 3 games later since then, no Kojima is not needed....

Anyone thinking the story after MGS4 continued being strong and couldn't be replicated is just being silly...

TLDR: Kojima stopped being necessary, when A: Portable Ops (one of Big Boss's better post MGS3 stories) was released, B: Peace Walker, Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain released. Konami can't mess up MGS anymore than he did.