Konami return on success of Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker

Are Konami sales and profits, and Metal Gear Solid peace Walker had much to do with it.

For the first six months of fiscal year (April to September), Konami recorded revenues of 115.8 billion yen and the operating income of $ 8.1 billion yen. These are over the past year 113.9 billion yen and 4,6 billion yen.

The company cited PSP Metal Gear Solid peace Walker as performer "solid" during the period. Winning Eleven/Pro Evolution and titles only Japan as Love plus and Powerful Pro Baseball, the release of PS3 seeing it for the first time, also sold well.

While Konami didn't provide the exact figures of sales, shared numbers for major categories.in football games sold 3.42 million units. Metal Gear games sold 1.47 million units.Unless there is another Metal Gear game we are missing, Peace Walker probably accounted for most of these sales of Metal Gear.

Peace Walker has seen the best performance in Japan, where the PSP is among the best trading platforms.Not surprisingly, the top Japan was territory of Konami, accounting for 4.34 million units software. Europe sold 3.42 million units and NorthAmerica 2.18 million. total software sales reached 10.05 million units, up significantly from 5.89 million last year.

With the goal of Winning Eleven and Metal Gear, should not be surprising to learn that PSP and PS3 were more platforms from Konami for the year, respectively equal to 28% and 29% of sales of the Wii unit. represented 12%, down from 23 percent last year, when he was the largest platform of Konami.

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