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Konami reports 5.1% increase in total revenue

Metal Gear Solid 4, one of the PlayStation 3's premier exclusive titles has sold over 4.5 million copies according to Konami. Konami reported its results for the April-December period; during this time frame total revenue grew 5.1 percent to 234 billion Yen ($2.56 billion USD). 

Helped by the Meal Gear sales, Konami's profits were 17,826 million Yen ($198.8 million USD), up 17.3% over the previous year. Konami's video game division saw the largest increase of any other Konami group as profits were up 10.6 percent to 148.7 billion Yen ($1.6 billion USD).

In Konami's own words, "The Metal Gear series is exhibiting its strength as a brand, steadily increasing the number sold year-to-date to more than 4.5 million units." Konami also announced that Metal Gear Online is now up to one million accounts worldwide in the first four months since the June 2008 launch.

Overall, Konami sold 22.35 million units of software over the nine months. In addition to Metal Gear Solid 4, other software played a large role in Konami's success with Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 selling 7.41 million units according to a GameSpot article.

Despite their current success, Konami revised its full year revenue and profit estimates downward due to the global economic slowdown and the rising Yen. The full fiscal year would encompass April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009. According to GameSpot, Konami expects revenues to rise 3.2 percent to 307 billion Yen ($3.36 billion USD) during the year, with profits now projected to grow 0.3% to 18.5 billion Yen ($203 million USD).


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A great exclusive for the PS3
By Chaser on 2/6/09, Rating: 0
RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By FITCamaro on 2/6/2009 9:12:33 AM , Rating: 2
You're an idiot if you think the 360 can't do the same exact graphics.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By MrBlastman on 2/6/2009 9:22:53 AM , Rating: 5
*yawns*

I'll just wait and see if it comes out for the PC. If it does, I might get it, if not... se la vie.

Silly PS 3 user, consoles are for kids. I love my PC.

/ends elitist PC snob rant ;)


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By bighairycamel on 2/6/2009 9:40:36 AM , Rating: 2
I just hope Konami doesn't pull a George Lucas and ride this cash chow. The series should end right here; any more sequels would just be a unnecessary stretch.

I could see them doing a remake of the original two Metal Gears when Snake battled Big Boss. That would be decent and it wouldn't have to stretch the story any further than it has.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By threepac3 on 2/6/2009 9:44:17 AM , Rating: 2
I agree with you on that point, but I hope Konami brings this game to the xbox 360 and the PC.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By SilentSin on 2/6/2009 10:19:05 AM , Rating: 1
I for one hope this never gets ported to the PC. Did you actually play the MGS1 port that was made for the PC? What an atrocious piece of dung that was. MGS is still my favorite in the series and that PC port left an unsavory flavor in or around my mouth area. X360 maybe, but I'd imagine it'd take quite a bit of grunt work to get it working nicely with a smaller number of CPU cores and all the squeezing they'd have to do to get it on a DVD9 (or 2 woohoo disc swapping).


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By Master Kenobi (blog) on 2/6/2009 11:05:33 AM , Rating: 5
Considering the "Cores" on a PS3 are nothing but floating point modules, you would simply offload everything that is sent to them, to the graphics cards that specialize in floating point calculations.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By SilentSin on 2/6/2009 2:32:55 PM , Rating: 4
That's great for the PC, not so much for the X360. You'd have to translate whatever is being done on the SPUs in the PS3 to some form of HLSL to get that to run on the 360's GPU (which is far inferior to today's cards in terms of GPGPU power), and then you'd be taking away from the graphics processing power too. Just saying it would take a lot of work, there's nothing that "simple" about it...not sure exactly why I got rated down, sorry if I offended the one person who somehow found enjoyment from the PC version of MGS.


By bjacobson on 2/6/2009 4:55:20 PM , Rating: 2
No, he was talking about for the CPU.
The Xbox360 would most likely be fine on the processing front, it's got 3 full hyperthreaded CPUs each with their own vector units. Konami did not make use of all 6 SPEs for the game, the usual max any developer has been able to put to use so far is 3. You can throw particle effects at the last 3 but particle effects really don't matter much in my book. For multiple DVDs, they could simply require the HDD so you could install. On the PC multiple DVDs would not be a problem for the same reason-- install it all to your harddrive.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By Pryde on 2/6/2009 4:10:11 PM , Rating: 2
The Nvidia RSX and the Cell are two totally different processors and need to be treated as such. If it was so simple as offloading it onto the Cell it would have already been done.


By rburnham on 2/6/2009 10:38:41 AM , Rating: 2
A remake of the NES games... now that is a great idea. I just hope if they do that, that they keep the poorly translated dialog.

"The truck have started to move."


By whickywhickyjim on 2/6/2009 12:08:52 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
The series should end right here; any more sequels would just be a unnecessary stretch.


This series ended for most people after MGS2. Never, ever again...not interested in cutscenes + more giant crab battle.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By bplewis24 on 2/6/2009 11:25:25 AM , Rating: 5
Oh there is an idiot in the room...but it aint him.

Not surprisingly (for this site) is the person whose post gets rated up.

Brandon


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By omnicronx on 2/6/2009 12:24:37 PM , Rating: 4
PS3 Cell > 360 PPC
The cell undoubtedly has the advantage here over the aging PPC processors of the 360.

360 Xenos > PS3 RSX
the RSX can process 24 pixels with its 24 pipelines while an Xbox 360 powered with ATI's Xenos, R500 chip can do double that, 48 pixels per clock. (not to mention 4x AA on all games without any coding required)

This is well know throughout the gaming community. Aside from the amount of space the media of each respective console can hold, there is really nothing that separates these consoles.

Both consoles have their advantages and disadvantages. This being said, many games will run better on one console over the other, it all depends on what the game is doing.

BUT.. anyone telling you that one console is exclusively faster than the other is either uninformed (whether that be because of lack of research or 'fanboism'), or they are advertising the console in which they are developing for.

Just my 2c


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By Pryde on 2/6/2009 4:46:30 PM , Rating: 4
PS3 Cell = 360 Xenon
The 3 Core Xenon is more like a PC and easier to program for and is more powerful for it was designed for, General Purpose.
While the 7 Core PS3 Cell is 1 core PPE ( similar to a single core of the Xenon ) and 6 SPE which are designed for vectorized floating point code execution.

360 Xenos = PS3 RSX
Now the complete opposite occurs here. The Xenos has a Unified shading architecture where the RSX has fixed pixal/vertex shaders.

Now lets get things right, The RSX has
24 parallel pixel-shader ALU pipes and
8 parallel vertex pipelines =
32 Total Pipelines

But that isn't all that makes a GPU. RSX supports HDR while Xenos does not. RSX has better fillrate. etc etc. While the Xenos has more Pipelines than the RSX, the RSX pretty much beats the Xenos where it isn't tied to the pipelines except in AA performance hit. At the end of the day the two chips are so very close in performance that during game play you will not know the difference and if the Cell was used to help the GPU it could greatly tip the favor to the PS3. But we have yet to see that happen

Just trying to point out above cause 24 vs 48 pipelines looks as if the GPU only has half the power of the other.


By MrBlastman on 2/6/2009 12:39:36 PM , Rating: 2
Ya know, I'd bet you a dollar that the old-school computer game "Archon" holds more replay value and excitement than many modern console games.

I really would.

What a darned good game that was. It was fun even in CGA!

Gameplay > Graphics... any day.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By chick0n on 2/6/09, Rating: -1
By omnicronx on 2/6/2009 12:26:07 PM , Rating: 2
And i still remember all EA sports games running at 30FPS on the PS3, and 60FPS on the 360. Does that make the 360 better than the PS3? No it does not, because in both situations the game was ported from one console to the other.


By PrimarchLion on 2/6/2009 1:23:09 PM , Rating: 2
It was ported to the original Xbox, which had very different hardware from the PS2. I thought it ran pretty well. If you played it on the 360 it could have been from the software emulation also.


By samoak54 on 2/6/2009 5:18:47 PM , Rating: 2
It cant, plain and simple. Im not saying mgs4 is the epitome of grafix, this there is no doubt that it by far the superior machine in terms of graphical output and processing power. Besides, this is in defense of a console that doesn't even have true hd support. Up-converting sd video from a dvd is not the same as hd off a blu-ray. You wanna see good graphics, check out killzone 2


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By spread on 2/6/2009 9:13:20 AM , Rating: 1
Konami is considering porting this to the X360. The only problem is the DVD storage.

The graphics between the PS3 and the X360 are pretty much the same quality.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By bunnyfubbles on 2/6/2009 9:18:49 AM , Rating: 1
yes, the PS3 is very good when it comes to playing cutscenes


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By bighairycamel on 2/6/2009 9:36:47 AM , Rating: 4
MGS cutscenes have always been rendered in real time. They aren't pregenerated cutscenes, you're watching actual moving character models in real time.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By koenshaku on 2/6/2009 10:11:48 AM , Rating: 2
It wouldn't take as much space to port this to 360 one of the main reasons it took up so much space to begin with is that they didn't care to use compression, just because they had the space to waste not to mention I believe it had other regions on the same disc.


By afkrotch on 2/6/2009 10:13:57 AM , Rating: 3
PS3 games. Zero regions. They can put different language audio on it. They'd also need to make censored versions for those pansy ass countries like Germany.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By Pryde on 2/6/2009 4:51:01 PM , Rating: 2
When you compress, you have to uncompress to use the data. Last time I checked uncompressing takes up processing power that could affect game play. Also porting usually looks worse and plays worse than on the console it was designed for.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By Hiawa23 on 2/6/2009 10:51:37 AM , Rating: 2
And its the exclusives like this one that demonstrate the PS3's graphics capabilities over the competition.

"yawns" yeah, like the Xbox1/Cube demonstrated their capabilities compared to the PS2. I enjoyed MGS4, didn't really care for all the videos in the second 1/2 of the game, but wasn't there talk of porting the game to the 360?

I own both consoles, & I don't think it is any surprise that the PS3 is more powerful than the 360, but not by much, or by the huge margin Sony claimed, & if Sony is going to pull themselves out of last, then I think they are going to need more than just graphics, cause we all get that already.

Kind of surprised cause don't they take into account the bundles when tallying up game sales? I just played the Killzone 2 demo, & although I enjoyed it, I did not get that, visuals so good that I would throw away my 360 or Wii, end of this world console graphics , like some were hyping this one to be. Will be interesting to see how well it sells in comparison to MGS4.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By Hiawa23 on 2/6/2009 12:25:07 PM , Rating: 2
And its the exclusives like this one that demonstrate the PS3's graphics capabilities over the competition.

The biggest benefit the PS3 has over the 360 is the 50gigs of space Blu-ray holds compared to 7.6gigs DVD that the 360 uses which allows for higher quality textures, less compression clearer sound, but even with all the advantages, the 360 has held up quite well versus Sony's beast. There is no point in even comparing either console to the Wii.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By Pryde on 2/6/2009 4:53:57 PM , Rating: 2
That is because Sony's beast has yet to be fully unleashed. There are no games out yet that utilize the Cell fully. Where the 360 is pretty much a PC and easy to design for with the experience of designing for PCs.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By Choppedliver on 2/6/2009 6:04:25 PM , Rating: 2
But the beast will be unleashed "any day now"!

PS3=Amiga:

Great machine, ahead of its time at launch, idiots marketing it.

I loved my Amiga. I love my PS3. It has ENOUGH good games that I can never play them all and the bluray player for movies is great.


RE: A great exclusive for the PS3
By Belard on 2/8/2009 9:49:53 AM , Rating: 2
I still have my Amigas. ;)

My Amiga 3000 sits in my room, still has data on it and works... mostly.

C= was pure idiots. An 18yr old kid could have done better.

Even some aspects of WindowsXP (and Vista) are... how would you say... sloppy, old-style in comparision to an OS from 1989 (ADOS 2.0~3.0)


great game
By dome1234 on 2/6/2009 8:50:35 AM , Rating: 1
might have sold more copies if it's on other consoles and the game's released in june, a 'dry' month, avoiding other heavy hitters in fall.

i certainly won't be surprised konami ports it for 360 at some point in the future.




RE: great game
By FITCamaro on 2/6/2009 9:11:26 AM , Rating: 2
Agreed. I see a 360 port eventually. Way too much potential for more $$$ for them not to.

As for me, I still haven't beat it. Every time I think about it I go do something else. Dunno why considering how awesome a game it was so far.


RE: great game
By tirminyl on 2/6/2009 9:38:56 AM , Rating: 3
Is it really potential $$$? Usually late ports do nothing in regards to sales so is it worth it to port the game with knowing how the market typically reacts to late ports?

I don't see a port happening as there would definitely have to be cuts in the game (and I am not talking about DVD space), but I do see future MG titles on the console.

Also, I am curious if this sales figure includes the bundled consoles?


RE: great game
By afkrotch on 2/6/2009 10:11:51 AM , Rating: 2
It'd say it's potential loss of $$$. The game was specifically designed around the PS3. So they'd have to spend a good chunk of change to try and make a port for it.

Make more money just making a new game. I'm sure they have a better working knowledge of the PS3 now, so it'll be easier to start pushing shovelware.


RE: great game
By Chaser on 2/6/2009 11:40:37 AM , Rating: 5
Well if they do have fun flipping those DVDs.


RE: great game
By samoak54 on 2/6/2009 5:14:09 PM , Rating: 3
yah, sure, a 360 port of a 50 gig game. The era of 5+ disk games died out with the ps1.


RE: great game
By WTFiSJuiCE on 2/6/2009 6:21:25 PM , Rating: 2
Lost Odyssey is three discs long so apparently it's not as extinct as you thought (=\); although it is creeping to that point ever so slightly with each passing day.


RE: great game
By Regs on 2/6/2009 9:13:17 AM , Rating: 2
Hard to say really. Everybody knows the holiday season is the biggest revenue making period of the year. Though with competition all wanting to use fall and early winter for the target launch date, why can't they change it up? January most college students have to go back to school and pay for books and other expenses. Parents of teenagers or younger are not going to buy 10 games for their kids at once. If I wanted to publish and market a video game it would be late spring.


One big cut scene + most crazy story ever.
By B3an on 2/6/2009 8:55:37 AM , Rating: 1
This sums up my thoughts perfectly on this game:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-p...




RE: One big cut scene + most crazy story ever.
By invidious on 2/6/2009 10:22:38 AM , Rating: 3
If the game is going to 60% cut scenes they should at least do them in CGI, every time I "played" this game I felt more like I was "watching" it.


By geddarkstorm on 2/6/2009 1:32:38 PM , Rating: 2
That's why I decided to reclassify it to an interactive movie :)


By samoak54 on 2/6/2009 5:14:59 PM , Rating: 2
Fitting... :D


RE: One big cut scene + most crazy story ever.
By cmdrdredd on 2/7/2009 8:30:27 AM , Rating: 2
If you think the game's story made no sense you weren't paying attention! It's not hard to figure out if you don't have the mental capacity of a slug. There was also tons of actual gameplay, besides that if you ever played any of the MGS games which I'm guessing you haven't you would be prepared for it.


By Reclaimer77 on 2/7/2009 1:27:57 PM , Rating: 1
Agree with the OP

Good game. But Mass Effect it ain't.


RE: One big cut scene + most crazy story ever.
By Reclaimer77 on 2/7/09, Rating: -1
RE: One big cut scene + most crazy story ever.
By cmdrdredd on 2/7/2009 6:13:23 PM , Rating: 3
quote:
Who said it was hard to figure out ? It's just absurd and, even for a video game, defies belief. Basically the story is stupid. That's about the best adjective for it.


Again you obviously just didn't get it. The story is very fitting and is not absurd at all.


By Reclaimer77 on 2/8/2009 1:25:49 AM , Rating: 1
You're drinking the Koolaid bud.


It was a good game
By shaw on 2/6/2009 8:43:31 AM , Rating: 2
I bought it upon launch and beat it straight through. It was a good game but I wish it had more action like Metal Gear Solid 3. MGS3 is probably my favorite in the series with perfect pacing.

They had a good marketing campaign for MGS4 so I'm not surprised either.

I'm upset that there was no mention of Jungle Evil in MGS4 *sniffle*




FF XIII
By m4elstrom on 2/9/2009 2:17:35 PM , Rating: 2
I know this is a "little" off topic but... Where the hell is Final fantasy XIII?, I understand square-enix milking the franchise, but making ps3 owners wait till they port it to xbox360 is just lame at best.




If they released it on 360
By blackseed on 2/6/09, Rating: -1
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