Konami has up to date the Principal Enterprise web page of its official web site to replicate new gross sales information for its varied new releases and franchises. Whereas it hasn’t offered exact gross sales figures for a few of its newer releases, the corporate has confirmed that the Metallic Gear franchise has now bought 65.1 million copies, which is 1.8 million larger than it was on the finish of June.
The Silent Hill franchise has equally seen an increase in gross sales, coming in at 13 million copies bought for the reason that franchise first made its debut again in March 1999. This marks a 1.3 million rise in gross sales for the reason that finish of June. The gross sales of each Metallic Gear and Silent Hill franchises had been doubtless buoyed by the discharge of newer titles of their respective sequence – Silent Hill 2’s remake, Silent Hill f and Metallic Gear Stable Delta: Snake Eater.
Apparently, the biggest spike within the replace figures comes from digital buying and selling card recreation Yu-Gi-Oh! Grasp Duel, which now sits at 80 million – 10 million larger in cumulative gross sales and downloads when in comparison with March 2025.
Apart from Yu-Gi-Oh! Grasp Duel and the eFootball sequence – at the moment at 900 million in cumulative gross sales and downloads – Metallic Gear is at the moment the best-selling franchise for the corporate. Konami has additionally famous earlier this month that it stays dedicated to the Silent Hill franchise as properly.
The assertion got here from sequence producer Motoi Okamoto, who revealed that Konami introduced three tasks concurrently – Silent Hill 2 remake, Silent Hill f and Silent Hill: Townfall – to point out how dedicated it was to bringing the franchise again into the mainstream.
“Three years in the past, in 2022, we introduced three titles: Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill f, and Silent Hill: Townfall,” wrote Okamoto on social media. “We didn’t need to simply announce a single remake to ‘take a look at the waters.’ We needed folks to really feel how critical we had been about reviving the sequence. Creating a remake and a brand new title concurrently naturally includes dangers, however we needed to convey our dedication at the beginning.”
“Solely when a brand new recreation is introduced can the way forward for a sequence be seen,” he continued. “Customers gained’t really feel motivated to interact with an IP until they will sense it has a future. If the corporate takes a wait-and-see strategy, so will the gamers. The corporate wants to point out how critical it’s so that customers can get genuinely excited. I believe that’s solely honest.”
Silent Hill f is the latest title to have been revealed by Konami. Developed by NeoBards and that includes writing by Ryukishi07, the title has seen an extremely optimistic response from followers of the Silent Hill franchise in addition to followers of the general horror style.
Konami had additionally confirmed that final 12 months’s Silent Hill 2 remake had bought greater than 2.5 million copies worldwide, serving to the franchise cross the ten million models milestone. This means that Silent Hill f has doubtless bought someplace round 2 million copies since its launch earlier this month. For extra particulars, try our evaluate of Silent Hill f.
