Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake Fails to Attract Players

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  • The remake of Metal Gear Solid 3, titled Delta: Snake Eater, has not met expectations in terms of sales performance.
  • Despite selling over a million copies on its first day, the games sales have since slowed down, with an estimated total of 1.7 million copies sold after four months.
  • This underperformance can be compared to other recent Konami remakes such as Silent Hill 2, which sold over two million copies in less than three months on PlayStation 5 and PC.
  • While exact sales figures for Delta: Snake Eater have not been released by Konami, the company has reported an additional 400,000 game sales in the last quarter of 2025, suggesting approximately 200,000 additional copies of Metal Gear Solid 3 were sold during that period.

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Disappointing Sales Performance of Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake Falls Short of Anticipations

Konami has provided an update on Metal Gear Solid sales, indicating that the remake of Metal Gear Solid 3, Delta: Snake Eater, is not performing as strongly as anticipated. Released in August 2025 for PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S with enhanced graphics and gameplay, the game sold over one million copies on its first day. Since then, Konami has not released specific sales figures. In October 2025, the company announced that the entire Metal Gear series had reached 65.1 million units sold by September 2025. This implies Delta sales of roughly 1.5 million copies at that time. By December 2025, Konami reported an additional 400,000 game sales in the last quarter of the year. This suggests an additional 200,000 sales of Delta in that period, bringing the estimated total to 1.7 million after four months. This highlights the weaker-than-expected performance of Delta compared to other recent Konami remakes, such as Silent Hill 2, which sold over two million copies on PlayStation 5 and PC in under three months.

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Specification
Official NameKonami GT
Brief SummaryKonami GT, originally known as Konami RF2 - Red Fighter, is a 1985 racing video game developed and released by Konami, using their GX400 arcade architecture. The player drives a sports car which must reach various checkpoints without running out of fuel. A turbo mode (activated by the gear shift) increases the car's speed but uses more fuel and puts the player at a higher risk of hitting an obstacle. Fuel power-ups can be found on the road which the player must pick up to make it to the final checkpoint.

The original title RF2 is a reference to Konami's 1984 arcade game Road Fighter, and thus this may be considered an unofficial sequel. RF2 was a commercial success in Japanese arcades. The series was followed in 1996 by official sequel Midnight Run - Road Fighter 2.

Konami GT was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs on October 6, 2010.

PlatformsArcade
ReleasedMarch 1, 1985
GenreRacing, Arcade
Play ModesSingle player
LanguagesGerman
GenreKonami
GenreKonami

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