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Monday 12-Jan-2009 2:01 PM Legends of Rock reaches milestone with DLC

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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock has become the first single game ever to surpass $1 billion in sales, Activision has claimed.

The music game, which launched on practically every current platform in late 2007, reached the milestone with help from Xbox Live and PSN music download sales, said Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith.

Sales for artists appearing on Guitar Hero have risen 15 percent according to Nielsen data, said Griffith.

Downloads for all Guitar Hero games now stand at 21 million, he added and over 141,000 user-generated songs have been posted via Guitar Hero: World Tour. We bet two thirds of them are rubbish.

Considering the price of a standard Guitar Hero pack it's no surprise that Acti-Blizz has made a bundle on the game, but we wonder how well it'd stand up to GTA IV if it was flogging for £39.99?

Andy Robinson

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Actually it was being flogged for Ł35 on 360 and PS3 down at HMV for the last few weeks.

That was with the guitar bundle.

Dunno if they have stopped doing that now tho.

ileatyoualive on 12 Jan '09

What about the billions Warcraft has made? Or are they counting the expansions as separate games?

Still, it's very impressive. That's more than Spiderman 3 has made worldwide in it's lifetime, to put it into perspective.

swiss999 on 12 Jan '09

I'm not sure that's entirely true. There are handful of other games which I've read about that have past that mark. Either way not exactly saying alot about videogames when one of the best selling titles is a repetitive rhythm music game using a cheap plastic guitar.

Osiris25 on 12 Jan '09

Ready for it?....Ka-CHING!

The_KFD_Case on 12 Jan '09

maybe they should funnel that money into getting some decent DLC for world tour and making the previous DLC compatible with it. Rock band has nearly 400 songs for download and they're all playable on RB2.

ensabahnur on 12 Jan '09

Actually it was being flogged for Ł35 on 360 and PS3 down at HMV for the last few weeks.

That was with the guitar bundle.

Dunno if they have stopped doing that now tho.

yeah i was thinking of getting that to get a second guitar then i seen that they were doing the rock band bundle for Ł94 and got that instead. after taking it home and setting everything up to have a jam session i finally realized that the bundle comes sans game. not a happy chappy after that but a quick look on ebay and managed to get one for Ł15.

ensabahnur on 12 Jan '09

The new ones still a horrible pile of cack next to rockband2 though...

placid ca5ual on 12 Jan '09

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