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Guitar Hero series to sell 7.5M in '07
Guitar Hero series to sell 7.5M in '07
GameSpot - November 27, 2007
Submitted by drl21 (810) at 10:14PM PST on November 27, 2007
Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter estimates the runaway hit of a rhythm game will put $550 million in Activision's coffers this fiscal year.
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1drl21 posted on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360) at 12:51PM PST on November 28, 2007. RE: Guitar Hero series to sell 7.5M in '07By the way, this article applies to more then just guitar Hero III, but I didn't know where else to post it, as I'm a fairly new contributor. So if anyone wants to help me out by telling me were I should post stuff like this in the future, I would appreciate it.[ Speaker ] [ Level 14 ] [ Rank: 810 ]bids
5drl21 posted on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Xbox 360) at 10:14PM PST on November 27, 2007. Article: Guitar Hero series to sell 7.5M in '07
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In case people take the 7.5 million from Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter to be fact, remember that is his estimate. Also (from the article itself) "the figure includes all games in the series, including the recently released Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PC, Wii, Macintosh, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3)." So people should not take this news to mean that the Xbox360 version has sold spectacularly, but that the series as a whole is selling well.
Vgchartz has this game at 1.18 million copies sold and remember they are most likely overestimating as they put October sales at 658,671 copies sold when they were in fact 490,800.
I doubt that this game will reach 3 million or even 2.5 million, especially if EA wisens up and releases a stand-alone package for Rock Band (which most of the people I have talked to like a lot more and are just put off by the price tag at the moment). This game is still being carried by hype and needs to be brought back down, it is competing with itself (courtesy of Wii, PS2 and PS3) and Rock Band and due to this Guitar Hero III for the Xbox360 should probably be somewhere below 250DKP.