With a new-old Metal Gear Strong sport available on the market within the type of Delta: Snake Eater, developer-publisher Konami has introduced that the stealth-action franchise has reached an enormous gross sales milestone of 65.5 million.
In keeping with a sales breakdown on Konami’s corporate website (by way of Eurogamer), the corporate offered a take a look at the success of its numerous mental properties. The soccer sim eFootball (previously generally known as PES) “bought or downloaded” 950 million copies worldwide, and the lovable baseball sim Pawafuru Puroyakyu (or Energy Execs) franchise surpassed 26.3 million copies globally. Nonetheless, it is the Metal Gear collection that is probably the most fascinating right here, because it bought a cumulative complete of 65.5 million copies as of December 2025 following Delta: Snake Eater’s launch.
A remake of 2004’s Metal Gear Strong 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Strong Delta: Snake Eater stored the story and gameplay of its predecessor intact whereas introducing new visuals and mechanics, akin to up to date textures and third-person gunplay. It reviewed effectively, with managing editor Tamoor Hussain scoring it a 9/10 in GameSpot’s Metal Gear Strong Delta: Snake Eater overview. And about one week after its August 28, 2025, launch on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, the remake bought a million copies. Now that is quite a lot of containers to ship, Snake.
There are different fascinating highlights within the IP gross sales breakdown, such because the YuGiOh franchise surpassing 32.5 million copies and the Silent Hill collection promoting 14 million copies worldwide, however probably the most fascinating tidbit is Konami’s admission that it’s going to “proceed to tackle challenges of the most recent innovation by using new applied sciences akin to synthetic intelligence (AI)” and different applied sciences just like the cloud, AR and VR, and NFTs.