Metal Gear Solid PS4

Series creator Hideo Kojima may like popping up during Microsoft press conferences, but Metal Gear Solid will always belong on PlayStation platforms. As part of Konami’s latest financial report, the publisher has revealed that Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes sold three times as much on the PlayStation 4 than the Xbox One during the previous quarter. No major surprise, huh?

In truth, the information is a teensy bit shaky, seeing as the game launched in mid-March, and this statistic depicts data from April through June. However, the split was similar during the publisher’s previous fiscal year, with the PS4 making up eight per cent of the Castlevania company’s total software sales compared to three per cent on the Xbox One. It’s worth noting that the prelude to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the only next-gen title released by the firm thus far.

The strong sales appear to have had an impact on the publisher’s allegiance, too, as the latest trailer for the abovementioned sequel bucked recent trends and actually appeared during Sony’s media briefing at E3 this year. We wouldn’t be surprised if that association continued right through until release.

[source eurogamer.net]