3. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (5.6 million)
The latest (
and final?) instalment in the much-loved, convoluted and groundbreaking series of Hideo Kojima's making ended things with bang, throwing us into a veritable sandbox playground in the mountains of Afghanistan, where we snuck around, messed around with impossibly high-tech gadgets, and built the mercenary army HQ of our dreams. One of the most interesting things to note about Metal Gear Solid V's sales is the big disparity between its success on PS4 and Xbox One. While it shifted over 3 million units on Sony's console, only 600,000 were sold on Microsoft's baby - an alarming gap even considering the PS4's overall sales superiority over the Xbox One. Perhaps this is to do with Metal Gear Solid being widely seen as a historically
'PlayStation' franchise, or maybe the PC sales took a big chunk of the XBO's market share, as gamers were eager to see how MGS fared on its PC debut. At least the poor figures will maybe make Microsoft a bit less bitter about Kojima pledging his allegiance to Sony, considering how un-lucrative his brainchild proved to be for their console.