The game sold 465,000 units, more than 12 times as many copies as its nearest rival, to debut at No1 for the week ended June 15. MGS4's true impact on hardware sales will be revealed by Media Create on Friday, but reports suggest weekly PS3 sales may have topped 70,000, up from just over 10,000 units the previous week.
Mario Kart Wii claimed second spot on the chart, shifting 38,000 units to narrowly outsell Wii Fit.
Konami’s Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 3 and Capcom’s Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, PSP titles that have both formerly topped the chart, rounded off the top five.
01. Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots (Konami, PS3) - 465,000
02. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii) - 38,000 / 1,444,000
03. Wii Fit (Nintendo, Wii) - 37,000 / 2,227,000
04. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 3 (Konami, PSP) - 27,000 / 187,000
05. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom, PSP) - 26,000 / 2,203,000
06. Hisshou Pachinko Pachislot Kouryaku Series DS Vol. 2 CR Shinseki Evangelion ~Shito, Futatabi~ (D3 Publisher, DS) - 22,000
07. Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit (Bandai Namco, PS3) - 18,000 / 111,000
08. Beautiful Letter Training (Nintendo, DS) - 17,000 / 285,000
09. DS Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Murder Files (Tecmo, DS) - 17,000 / 56,000
10. Mysterious Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 3 (Sega, Wii) - 14,000 / 73,000
Sales data compiled by Media Create, via NeoGaf.