{"id":32533,"date":"2023-08-05T18:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-metal-gear-series-has-now-sold-over-60-million-copies\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T17:12:53","slug":"the-metal-gear-series-has-now-sold-over-60-million-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-metal-gear-series-has-now-sold-over-60-million-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metal Gear series has now sold over 60 million copies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Metal Gear series has topped 60 million sales.\n<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to a new update posted on the official Konami website which reveals that the revered stealth series \u2013 which launched in 1987 \u2013 hit the milestone in the run up to June 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vgchartz.com\/article\/458057\/metal-gear-series-sales-top-60-million-units\/\">VGChartz<\/a>, that&#8217;s compared with 57.7m units sold in September 2021, and 59.3m units sold back in November 2022, intimating that 700,000 Metal Gear games have been sold in the last seven months alone&#8230; even though the series hasn&#8217;t published a new mainline title since 2018.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-metal-gear-series-has-now-sold-over-60-million-copies\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metal Gear series has topped 60 million sales. That&#8217;s according to a new update posted on the official Konami website which reveals that the revered stealth series \u2013 which launched in 1987 \u2013 hit the milestone in the run up to June 2023. 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