Konami just lately revealed a company replace on its digital leisure enterprise, which is predictably dry studying—the corporate is “Creating New Consumer Experiences” and “Specializing in Additional Enlargement and Stimulation of esports” and I am already overdosing on buzzwords. There’s one attention-grabbing titbit, nonetheless. Since its launch in July of 1987, the Metallic Gear collection has achieved 60 million whole cumulative gross sales.
That is primarily based on numbers collected on the finish of June this 12 months. Because the Wayback Machine exhibits, when Konami final counted gross sales on the finish of September 2022, the Metallic gear collection was as much as 59.3 million copies offered. Which signifies that despite the fact that there hasn’t been a brand new recreation within the collection because the unloved Metallic Gear: Survive in 2018, it is nonetheless managed to rack up 700,000 gross sales in simply 9 months.
That definitely goes a way towards explaining why Konami has such in depth plans for retaining the collection obtainable. The Metallic Gear Strong Grasp Assortment Vol. 1 is at present scheduled for an October 24 launch, and can even comprise the non-canon recreation Hideo Kojima hates. (That is Metallic Gear 2: Snake’s Revenge, for individuals who do not sustain with the bafflingly complicated historical past of Metallic Gear.)
That assortment might be bundling collectively Metallic Gear, Metallic Gear 2: Strong Snake, Metallic Gear Strong (together with VR missions/particular missions), Metallic Gear Strong 2: Sons of Liberty (HD Assortment model), Metallic Gear Strong 3: Snake Eater (HD Assortment model), Metallic Gear (NES model), and Snake’s Revenge together with bonus materials like screenplays, music, and so forth.
Konami does word that “Enjoying with a keyboard and mouse is not supported” on every Steam web page for the Grasp Assortment, although we’ll have to attend and see whether or not that is truly true of all of the video games within the bundle. Earlier PC ports of the primary two video games had mouse-and-keyboard assist, in any case.
The Grasp Assortment Vol. 2 will after all observe, and it looks like it should lastly free Metallic Gear Strong 4 from its PlayStation 4 jail.
