Guitar Hero Franchise Breaks $1 Billion In Sales
The Guitar Hero enfranchisement has surpassed sales of $1 billion in just over two years of release, according to figures released by the NPD Chemical group.
Franchise publisher Activision ready-made the announcement today, saying the 26 months it took the series to reach the billion-dollar sales tick off is an manufacture book. The Guitar Hero games suffer together sold ended 14 million units in North America unparalleled since its 2005 launch, and NPD numbers indicate that the most Holocene epoch addition to the serial, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, was the circus tent-merchandising title in 2007 in both dollars and units sold. Much five trillion songs have been downloaded for the game since its expel less than three months ago.
"Guitar Hero is one of the biggest brands and one of the most ruling distribution platforms all told of amusement nowadays," aforementioned Activision Publication Chief executive officer Michael Griffith. "Guitar Hero's popularity with broad audiences is a confirmation that videogames have become a true whole sle medium."
Last workweek, Activision proclaimed it had moved into the position of best console and handheld game publisher in the U.S., holding 17.7 percentage of the market share, according to year-end NPD figures, powered mainly by the successes of Guitar Hero III and Ring of Duty 4: Redbrick Warfare.
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