Actually Esjay, MGS1 didn't even do well in Japan. While in the US everyone was raving about it when it came out, Japan was just kinda.....
. I'm not sure how MGS2 did over there, but it might've done pretty well, since they came out with the MGS2: Limited Edition Box released only for Japan. Anyway, yeah I don't see what they were complaining about...they do get cooler games than we do and all.