Metallic Gear Strong Delta: Snake Eater offered a million copies on its first day, Konami has revealed. There was loads driving on the remake, given the beloved standing of the unique model and the absence of the collection’ legendary creator, Hideo Kojima, from the brand new model. Nevertheless, it looks like these challenges did not maintain Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater again, as the sport did not take lengthy to cross a significant milestone.
After initially revealing the sport in 2023, Konami remained comparatively quiet about it till late 2024, when the corporate began revealing extra particulars little by little earlier than ramping up advertising efforts in 2025. As leaks had steered it could earlier than Konami made it official, Metal Gear Solid Delta launched on August 28 on PC, Xbox Sequence X/S and PlayStation 5. Now, the studio has revealed the sport hit a big gross sales mark shortly after that launch.
A September 5 tweet from Konami UK revealed that Metallic Gear Strong Delta handed the a million copies offered mark on August 28, the identical day it got here out. At first, it appeared like the sport was off to a slower begin than that, as Metal Gear Solid Delta peaked at 19,634 concurrent Steam players on its first day, a far cry from the over 91,000 simultaneous Steam customers that flocked to Metallic Gear Strong 5 on its launch. That discrepancy means that console customers make up the majority of MGS Delta‘s participant base to this point, regardless of complaints about poor efficiency on PS5 Professional.
Even when the sport hasn’t been fairly the smash hit amongst PC gamers as some might need anticipated, its outstanding gross sales efficiency should not come as a lot of a shock. As critics started releasing their ideas, Metal Gear Solid Delta received review scores close to the original, reaching an 86 on Metacritic throughout the first few hours of the evaluation embargo lifting, in comparison with the OG Snake Eater’s 91. Whereas it might have fallen shy of its predecessor, that is nonetheless fairly the achievement, contemplating how well-loved the unique title is amongst followers and critics alike.
These early impressions had been sufficient to assuage the concerns some fans had about MGS Delta without Hideo Kojima engaged on the sport. Now that Konami has confirmed some staggering gross sales figures for the title’s first day, there’s all of the extra proof that the collection is doing alright within the post-Kojima period. Some controversy over the Collector’s Version and the sport’s efficiency on some methods stays, however total, issues are wanting good for Metallic Gear Strong Delta.
