Konami updated its sales figures for its numerous video game franchises, revealing that the Metal Gear franchise had sold 58 million copies as of December 31, 2021.
That’s a lot of nuke-launching Metal Gears, and that means the series has sold 900,000 copies since March 31, 2021. Despite the high sales, Konami hasn’t released a new game since 2018’s ill-fated Metal Gear Survive, a survival-based spin-off of Metal Gear Solid V that had nothing to do with series creator Hideo Kojima, who had already departed the firm.
58 million copies
Nonetheless, Konami made a little attempt in 2020 to start making the series more accessible on platforms by releasing Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid, and Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance on the PC platform GOG. (Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 have since been taken down from digital marketplaces, at least temporarily, owing to licensing concerns.) Recently, there has been a raging rumor that developer Virtuos is rebuilding or reinventing Metal Gear Solid 3 for Konami. According to the source, contemporary remasters of Metal Gear Solid games are in the works.
Metal Gear – The movie
Finally, Oscar Isaac will play Solid Snake in a Metal Gear Solid film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who also helmed Kong: Skull Island. While Konami isn’t doing anything with Metal Gear at the present, there’s still reason to believe that the games will remain relevant. At the very least, it’s noteworthy that Metal Gear’s overall franchise sales continue to rise even when there are no new games to discuss.
About Metal Gear
Hideo Kojima invented the Metal Gear series of techno-thriller stealth games. Metal Gear, the first game developed and published by Konami, was launched in 1987 for MSX home computers. The player often assumes the role of a special forces officer (typically Solid Snake or Big Boss) tasked with locating the eponymous superweapon “Metal Gear,” a bipedal walking tank capable of launching nuclear warheads.
For numerous systems, many sequels have been developed that have extended the original game’s storyline by introducing characters that oppose and assist Snake, as well as a few prequels that explore the origins of Metal Gear and recurrent characters.
