Konami not too long ago printed a company replace on its digital leisure enterprise, which is predictably dry studying—the corporate is “Creating New Person Experiences” and “Specializing in Additional Growth and Stimulation of esports” and I am already overdosing on buzzwords. There’s one fascinating titbit, nevertheless. Since its launch in July of 1987, the Steel Gear sequence has achieved 60 million whole cumulative gross sales.
That is based mostly on numbers collected on the finish of June this yr. Because the Wayback Machine reveals, when Konami final counted gross sales on the finish of September 2022, the Steel gear sequence was as much as 59.3 million copies offered. Which implies that though there hasn’t been a brand new sport within the sequence because the unloved Steel Gear: Survive in 2018, it is nonetheless managed to rack up 700,000 gross sales in simply 9 months.
That definitely goes a way towards explaining why Konami has such intensive plans for conserving the sequence accessible. The Steel Gear Strong Grasp Assortment Vol. 1 is at present scheduled for an October 24 launch, and can even include the non-canon sport Hideo Kojima hates. (That is Steel Gear 2: Snake’s Revenge, for individuals who do not sustain with the bafflingly advanced historical past of Steel Gear.)
That assortment might be bundling collectively Steel Gear, Steel Gear 2: Strong Snake, Steel Gear Strong (together with VR missions/particular missions), Steel Gear Strong 2: Sons of Liberty (HD Assortment model), Steel Gear Strong 3: Snake Eater (HD Assortment model), Steel Gear (NES model), and Snake’s Revenge together with bonus materials like screenplays, music, and so forth.
Konami does word that “Taking part in with a keyboard and mouse is not supported” on every Steam web page for the Grasp Assortment, although we’ll have to attend and see whether or not that is truly true of all of the video games within the bundle. Earlier PC ports of the primary two video games had mouse-and-keyboard assist, in spite of everything.
The Grasp Assortment Vol. 2 will after all observe, and it looks like it may lastly free Steel Gear Strong 4 from its PlayStation 4 jail.